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Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how we determine what came first in the timeline of our species

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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The hidden power of epigenetics: Best ideas of the century

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The hidden power of epigenetics: Best ideas of the century

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The woolly rhino

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Woolly rhino genome recovered from meat in frozen wolf pup’s stomach

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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

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Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a Miocene ape

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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The bones arranged in the approximate anatomical position of the right foot

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Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

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Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives

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Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch

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Ancient lead exposure may have influenced how our brains evolved

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