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‘Hobbit’ hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones suggests that Homo floresiensis was neither a skilled hunter of big game nor a master of fire

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We’re not the most successful human species

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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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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: 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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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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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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Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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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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