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When does a bone become a fossil?
As organic material in a bone gets replaced by minerals over time, it becomes a fossil. But that can happen at different rates even within the same individual
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Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlier than we thought
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Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago
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Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago
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The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution
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How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?
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Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red
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How archaeologists can decide if prehistoric artefacts count as art
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The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species
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Seventh Son author Sebastian Faulks: ‘I’m 3.7 per cent Neanderthal’
Our聽New Scientist Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller 聽exploring ethics, genetics and what it is to be human.
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People around Europe have eaten seaweed for thousands of years
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A site used by ancient humans was also a latrine for giant hyenas
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Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 million years ago
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Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and made use of their pelts
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