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The forgotten origins of the human body

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The forgotten origins of the human body

Our heart, lungs, hands and genes are all relics of an evolutionary past, revealing our true animal nature

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Alice Roberts

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Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

Culture

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

Life

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

Features

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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Humans

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

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Humans

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Life

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

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Humans

Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Humans

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought

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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

News

Humans

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

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