Humans
Human brains may have got bigger for no particular reason
Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – but that may not be true at all
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‘Hobbit’ hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons
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We’re not the most successful human species
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Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans
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Humans sleep the least of all apes – is it the secret to our success?
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Alice Roberts: The forgotten origins of the human body
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Alice Roberts: ‘We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals’
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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA
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Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus
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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment
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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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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe
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