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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

A cache of stone tools found in south India reveals that the hominins living there over 170,000 years ago already had advanced tool-making skills  

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

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Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Ancient human skulls

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We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found

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Models of the skulls of human ancestors

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Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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A sample containing DNA

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Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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Illustration of a mastodon

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First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

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Person cutting notches into bone with close-up of notched Neanderthal version on the left

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Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

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Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

DNA extracted from dental plaque suggests our extinct cousins could self-medicate and they shared mouth bacteria with humans, perhaps transmitted by kissing

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The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016

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Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes

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Humans have purged the bad genes from our Neanderthal hook-ups

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Cave fires and rhino skull used in Neanderthal burial rituals

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