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Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged
The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities
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Denisovan tools from cave in China show how mysterious humans lived
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What the remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise聽
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The cave where Neanderthals met Homo sapiens
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Did humans evolve to be active throughout the day and night?
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Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution
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We still don’t know when humans began
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What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets
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The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution
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The genome of a long-extinct ancient human is hiding within us
We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost 鈥済host ancestor鈥� inside us 鈥� and by putting all the different bits together, we might be able to reconstruct their genome
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Human brains may have got bigger for no particular reason
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鈥楬obbit鈥� hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons
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We鈥檙e 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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