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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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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

Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins

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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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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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