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Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92
Richard Lewontin was an evolutionary biologist who showed that most genetic variation is within populations rather than between 鈥渞acial鈥� groups
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Jungle review: How tropical forests helped shape human evolution
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New fossil finds show we are far from understanding how humans evolved
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Newly identified ancestor of Neanderthals complicates the human story
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The surprising, ancient origins of TB, humanity’s most deadly disease
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Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies
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Brain’s movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution
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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour
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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals
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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps
Our distant ancestors may have swung below tree branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee 鈥� challenging recent thinking that the earliest hominins did neither
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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation
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Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin
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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn’t?
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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans
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