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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

We once shared the planet with at least seven other types of human. Ironically, our success may have been due to our deepest vulnerability: being dependent on others

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Upper central deciduous incisor

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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A top (dorsal) view of a day 16-19 human embryo

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Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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2C72R3H Rock carvings from the bronze age with a scene where two men with dogs and spears hunting a huge wild boar. One of the dogs is dead. The carvings are

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Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

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Ancient faeces sitting on a rock

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Ancient faeces show Iron Age miners ate blue cheese and drank beer

Faeces samples from an Iron Age salt mine have been genetically sequenced, revealing traces of fungi found in blue cheese and beer

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It’s now easier to run trials testing CRISPR-edited crops in England

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How our ape ancestors suddenly lost their tails 25 million years ago

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

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