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How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles 鈥� but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals surprising details about the short kings of prehistory

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Artefacts hint at cultural exchange between Neanderthals and humans

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鈥楬obbit鈥� hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons

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Humans sleep the least of all apes 鈥� is it the secret to our success?

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Ancient human DNA found on cave art for the first time

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All known Homo naledi skeletons seem to be female

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What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa

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Alice Roberts

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

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脰tzi’s frozen remains may harbour metabolically active microbes

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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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The story of the first human tool: the humble container

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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

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Neanderthal infants were enormous compared with modern humans

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