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TX DATE:21-07-2025,TX WEEK:29,EMBARGOED UNTIL:08-07-2025 00:00:00,DESCRIPTION:Dramatic reconstruction of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens living in Africa.,COPYRIGHT:BBC Studios,CREDIT LINE:BBC / BBC Studios

Humans

Exploring humanity's ancient origins in fantastic new BBC documentary

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and the interactions of its own nomadic groups. Bethan Ackerley is enthralled

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Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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Life

Weird microbial partnership shows how complex life may have evolved

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Fossil teeth may come from a new species of early hominin

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Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn’t have a species name

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Health

The real reason why we lost the ability to make vitamin C

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Your pet dog’s ancestor was a fierce, wild animal. How was it tamed?

Features

Giant meat-eating dinosaur skulls reveal ‘bone-crushing’ bite

Life

Giant meat-eating dinosaur skulls reveal ‘bone-crushing’ bite

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Team of EMS Paramedics React Quick to Provide Medical Help to Injured Patient and Get Him in Ambulance on a Stretcher. Emergency Care Assistants Arrived on the Scene of a Traffic Accident on a Street.

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Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork

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Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought

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What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?

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Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists

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Life

Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth

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70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – that’s why we exist

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