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2FM22K7 The joy is evident on the face of this young orangutan. BORNEO: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent TWENTY years snapping Borneo?s cutest orangutans.

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Living in trees may have given great apes vocal skills for consonants

A comparison of consonant-like sounds in great apes suggests an arboreal lifestyle may have been a step towards complex speech in our ancestors

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A series of hominoid crania (counterclockwise from the L): juvenile Australopithecus, adult Australopithecus, adult chimpanzee, juvenile chimpanzee, adult Homo erectus (center). Specimens photographed at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

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Our ancestors鈥� prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

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Geneticist Svante P盲盲bo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

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Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

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3D models of the femur and ulnae of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

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Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Digital restoration of fossil child and adult crania

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Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

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DEWD0X Archaeological Site of Atapuerca. Archaeological Site: Gran Dolina. World Heritage Site. Burgos. Castilla-Leon. Spain.

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

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Illustration of a Neolithic farming village

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Evolution of lactose tolerance probably driven by famine and disease

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Shoulder growth may slow during human development to make birth easier

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

A new wave of archaeological investigations is reconstructing intimate details of our ancestors' lives from fossilised footprints. They give us glimpses of everything from parent-child relationships to the thrill of a giant sloth hunt

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Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

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Family tree of extinct apes reveals our early evolutionary history

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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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