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Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist Michael Marshall details a surprising new hypothesis that suggests they may have come from us

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Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

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Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

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Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how we determine what came first in the timeline of our species

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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