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A DNA analysis suggests that a woman known as Zana may have been from a long lost human subspecies.
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Our distant ancestors came in a variety of different shapes and sizes, just like modern humans do today.
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A genome study has pinpointed when mankind's most recent common male ancestor would have lived.
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Scientists have proposed a rather unorthodox way of prospecting for gold and other valuable metals.
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The discovery has pushed back the emergence of the earliest humans by up to 400,000 years.
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The early domestication of wolves by modern humans may have tipped the balance in our favor.
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A leading surgeon believes it will soon be possible to perform a real-life head transplant on a human.
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Google's DeepMind AI is now capable of playing several Atari 2600 games as skillfully as a human.
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The celebrated physicist compared the exploration of space to 'life insurance' for the human race.
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The SuperSTEM 3 is capable of examining objects a million times smaller than a human hair.
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Researchers have drawn up a list of the dozen most likely scenarios that could spell the end of humanity.
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A new study has confirmed that dogs are adept at reading the emotions of their human owners.
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24-year-old Maggie Lieu has been shortlisted to go to Mars as part of the controversial Mars One project.
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Conspiracy theorists claim to have identified the shadow of a man working on the Curiosity rover.
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The change is intended to represent how much closer the human race is to global catastrophe.
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Numerous shark sightings near Newcastle in Australia have been keeping beachgoers out of the water.
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Scientists now believe that Neanderthals were no less advanced that their modern human counterparts.
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Gibbons may communicate in a way that is similar to how early humans spoke millions of years ago.
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The Peruvian government plans to prosecute activists for damaging one of the ancient Nazca geoglyphs.
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Despite being a popular gift this Christmas, the humble Ouija board possesses a much darker side.