Health
Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years
The number of mildly harmful mutations in the European population has increased over the last 45,000 years, a lingering effect of early migration into Europe
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Humans
We’ve finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors
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Humans
How walking helped humans take over the planet
Culture
Life
Don’t Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds
Culture
Humans
Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago
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Humans
Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought
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Health
Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn’t make much difference
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Humans
Ruth Mace on human evolution and surviving the apocalypse with yaks
Regulars
Health
How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn’t 10,000
Features
Humans
Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans
A strange signal in ancient and modern human DNA suggests the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans must have mated with an unknown species of human
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Humans
Children’s teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia
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Humans
Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?
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Humans
The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry
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Earth
Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society
Features