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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans

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Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and nap like us too

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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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Green DNA with trees

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Human-plant hybrid cells reveal truth about dark DNA in our genome

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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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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Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

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

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and our ape ancestors

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New Denisovan discovery could rewrite our family tree

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Sperm are selfish – and so are we

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Having children plays a complicated role in the rate we age

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

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