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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity
This evolution bestseller is full of ironic humour, sharp insights and affectionate acknowledgement of human flaws – and ends up as a celebration of curiosity
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Evolution of lactose tolerance probably driven by famine and disease
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Shoulder growth may slow during human development to make birth easier
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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life
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Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight
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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history
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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago
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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years
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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago
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What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?
Compassion and sociability helped Homo sapiens survive climatic changes that wiped out other types of humans. Will those skills be enough to survive another bout of climate change?
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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans
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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do
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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal
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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves
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