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Some of the best early human bones ever found

Humans

Homo naledi is only 250,000 years old – here’s why that matters

The latest species of extinct hominin to be discovered that promised to rewrite our history may have died out as modern humans came about  

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A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa

Humans

Mystery human hobbit ancestor may have been first out of Africa

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Life

The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson's

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Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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Humans

Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Ant carrying back injured nestmate

Life

Soldier ants carry comrades wounded in raids back to base

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Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

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Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor

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Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

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Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes

Genome sequences found in a waste-water plant seem to question the possibility that giant viruses are a whole new domain of life – but not everyone is convinced

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Life

World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs

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Life

First ever cavefish discovered in Europe evolved super-fast

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Humans

Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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Life

Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

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