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Ancient human bone helps date our first sex with Neanderthals
22 Oct 2014: Oldest genome sequence of a modern human suggests Homo sapiens first bred with Neanderthals 50,000-60,000 years ago
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16 Oct 2014:
Geologists, climate scientists, ecologists – and a lawyer – to rule on whether impact of human life on Earth has pushed us into a new epoch
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14 Oct 2014: Henry Gee: Humans do not stand at the top of a ladder of creation, above the apes and below the angels, superior to all other species
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11 Oct 2014:
The discovery of wall paintings in Indonesian caves suggests that the human ability to express ourselves began before we trekked out of Africa
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9 Oct 2014: Ghostly hand markings and animal paintings in Sulawesi caves are much older than thought, pushing back probable date for origin of art
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29 Sep 2014: Karen Armstrong traces the links between religion and violence from ancient Egypt to modern jihad, writes Salley Vickers
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26 Sep 2014:
Professor Alice Roberts says her daughter is not allowed princess parties in case she become obsessed with ‘girly’ stereotypes, but do they really have that much effect in later life? Princess party survivor Anna McKie thinks not
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24 Sep 2014: Counterintuitive effect may be the result of relatively few men mating with multiple women
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21 Sep 2014: Yuval Noah Harari’s account of how we conquered the Earth astonishes with its scope and imagination, writes Ben Shephard
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18 Sep 2014:
Mixture of hunter-gatherers and farmers was augmented by third wave of migrants, perhaps 5,000 years ago, from north Eurasia
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15 Sep 2014:
Ian Sample meets the historian Yuval Noah Harari to discuss his international bestseller
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11 Sep 2014: Jolynna Sinanan: My team of anthropologists are studying how cultures around the globe take selfies. Are we becoming more narcissistic? It depends where you’re from
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10 Sep 2014:
Jordi Busqué’s award-winning portfolio, The Mennonites of Bolivia, documents the lives of the Mennonites, a relatively unknown religious community of European descent, in eastern Bolivia. As the 21st century brings modernity almost everywhere, the Mennonite way of life has remained unchanged since the 16th Century, with this group choosing to live in isolated farming communities and remaining fiercely protective of their privacy.
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5 Sep 2014:
Does modern life make us happy? We have gained much but we have lost a great deal too, argues Yuval Noah Harari. Are humans better suited to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle?
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4 Sep 2014: Jimmy Nelson: "It took me two months to reach them, via a missionary plane and a two-week jungle trek"
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2 Sep 2014:
Discovery is a significant shift in our understanding of human development, say experts
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