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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

Thanks to ancient interbreeding, the human species we thought had vanished live on inside you

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Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

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Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes

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The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever

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The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue of species hit by climate change, but there are limits

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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality

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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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