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Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain

An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires some 400,000 years ago

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Neanderthals' hefty noses weren’t well adapted to cold climates

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Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans

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Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art

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

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Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

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Early Neanderthals hunted ibex on steep mountain slopes

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A skull unearthed in Harbin, China, turns out to belong to a Denisovan

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An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

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Neanderthals were probably maggot-munchers, not hyper-carnivores

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Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture

A comparison of cut marks on bones reveals that Neanderthal groups living fairly close to each other had their own distinct ways of butchering animals

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'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

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Neanderthals had a 'fat factory' where they processed bones for grease

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A Neanderthal-shaped skull may explain why some people get headaches

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The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

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