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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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Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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We鈥檝e only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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Which humans first made tools or art 鈥� and how do we know?

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

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Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

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Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn鈥檛 have a species name

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What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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The biggest coincidence in human evolution

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other 鈥� how did it crop up independently at about the same time?

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Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we’re related to Australopithecus

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Has a volcanic eruption ever wiped out a species of hominins?

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Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years 鈥� and what鈥檚 to come

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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

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