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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

You’d be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors. Here are the five species with the fewest fossils

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We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

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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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Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

Humans

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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People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

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Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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

This is one of the greatest fossil finds of the 21st century say its discoverers, who also provide a date for when this enigmatic species lived

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

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Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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