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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

We weren’t the only ancient artists – the discovery of 66,700-year-old cave art show our Neanderthal cousins also liked to draw

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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Reconstruction of Cheddar Man's head and shoulders

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Ancient 'dark-skinned' Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

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Humans

The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

Features

A man drinking out of a bottle of alcohol

Health

We're evolving a gene that may stop us from drinking alcohol

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Chickens for sale

Health

Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry

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Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

Life

Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

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We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong

Life

We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong

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Our cities are driving evolution and it's not all bad news

Culture

Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

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Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

A genetic analysis of Cheddar Man, one of the first people to settle in Britain after the last ice age, suggests that his skin was dark

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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

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Life

Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

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Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

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