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Humans came close to extinction - 08/09/98
Fossil find could rewrite human history - 10/12/98
Secrets of the Stone Age - 16/12/98
Neanderthals 'mated with modern humans' - 21/04/99
'First Americans were Australian' - 26/08/99
Neanderthals were cannibals - 01/10/99
Neanderthals survived longer than thought - 26/10/99
Ape-man: Origin of sophistication - 22/02/00
World's oldest building discovered (in Japan, 500,000 years old) - 01/03/00
Asia's oldest axe tools discovered - 03/03/00
Early Man walked on all fours - 23/03/00
Miniature monkey is missing link in man's family tree - 23/03/00
'Single mutation led to language' - 28/03/00
Neanderthals not human ancestors - 29/03/00
Did sharing evolve from group hunting? - 06/04/00
Origins of Language
Did a forgotten naturalist [Alfred Wallace] beat Darwin to natural selection? - 17/04/00
New monkey species discovered - 23/04/00
Near complete apeman skull found - 26/04/00
[Georgian] Fossil skulls show the way - 11/05/00
Skull fossils find provides clue to 'first Europeans' - 12/05/00
Fossils may be 'first Europeans' - 12/05/00
Chimps take cooking tips - 17/08/00
Lost Brazilian tribe emerges deep in the Amazon - 17/08/00
Brazil's lost tribe returns - 18/08/00
Genetic 'Adam never met Eve' - 30/10/00 The most recent ancestor of all males living today was a man who lived in Africa around 59,000 years ago
Genetic study roots humans in Africa - 06/12/00
Scientists unearth six million-year-old remains in Africa - 07/12/00
Mungo Man shows how Australia was a cradle of culture - 09/01/01
'Modern humans' dexterity 'drove out Neanderthals' - 08/02/01
Brazil seeks out lost Indian tribes - 27/03/01
Genetic roots of Europe - 17/05/01 Northern Europeans could be descended from as few as 50 individuals who survived the last ice age
Fishy clue to rise of humans - 21/05/01
Teeth and bones stir human debate - 11/07/01
DNA analysis tracks Silk Road forbears - 28/08/01
Stone Age masterpieces shed new light on the origins of art - 04/10/01
Computer skills of brainy monkeys - 15/10/01
'Oldest' prehistoric art unearthed - 10/01/02
Cave find dates the dawn of creativity - 11/01/02
Extra 20m years before man came down from the trees - 18/04/02
Primate ancestor lived with dinos - 18/04/02
New evidence of Neanderthal violence - 22/04/02
chimps used simple tools 5 million years ago - 23/05/02
Nut-cracking chimps shed new light on our old tools - 24/05/02
Neanderthal clues from mammoth find - 25/06/02
First humans 'small brained' - 04/07/02
'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa - 10/07/02
Q&A: Chad fossil discovery - 10/07/02
Scientists delight in ancient skull find - 10/07/02
'It's a wonderful thing' - 10/07/02
Skull of 'man's oldest relative' found - 11/07/02
Family of man - 11/07/02
Humanity in my hands - 11/07/02
Neanderthal skeleton rediscovered - 04/09/02
Ape culture hints at earlier evolution - 02/01/03
How great apes at play backdate origins of man - 03/01/03 the origin of human-like culture goes back at least 14 million years
Georgian skull's link to our past - 10/01/03
Fossil find stirs human debate - 31/01/03
350,000-year-old footprints discovered - 17/03/03
Evidence of earliest human burial - 26/03/03
Neanderthals 'had hands like ours' - 27/03/03
Blow to Neanderthal breeding theory - 13/05/03
Hominid site saved for research - 14/05/03
Chimps genetically close to humans - 20/05/03
Oldest human skulls found - 11/06/03
Q&A: The Herto skulls - 11/06/03
160,000-year-old skulls fill crucial gap in evolution - 12/06/03
Date limit set on first Americans - 22/07/03
Human fossils set European record - 22/09/03
Ancient man 'used tooth picks' - 06/11/03
Neanderthal 'face' found in Loire - 02/12/03
Cavemen were first with flying ducks on the wall - 18/12/03
'New World' link to Arctic find - 02/01/04
Monkeys 'grasp basic grammar' - 21/01/04
Neanderthals 'not close family' - 27/01/04
New light shed on SA cave art - 07/02/04 Archaeologists using the latest radio-carbon dating technology found that the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg paintings are 3,000 years old
Hunt for ancient human molecules - 16/02/04
Early pre-human lacked sharp canines - 08/03/04
Early human marks are 'symbols' - 16/03/04
Cave yields 'earliest jewellery' - 15/04/04
Neanderthals were 'adults by 15' - 28/04/04
Bones point to origins of speech - 25/06/04
Skull fuels Homo erectus debate - 02/07/04
Tribe challenges American origins - 07/09/04
'New' giant ape found in DR Congo - 10/10/04
'Hobbit' joins human family tree - 27/10/04
'Original' great ape discovered - 18/11/04
Running 'key to human evolution' - 18/11/04
Amazing hominid haul in Ethiopia - 19/01/05
Age of ancient humans reassessed - 16/02/05 Two skulls originally found in 1967 have been shown to be about 195,000 years old, making them the oldest modern human remains known to science
Scientists unearth early skeleton - 06/03/05
Chad skull 'leans to human line' - 06/04/05
Early hominid 'cared for elderly' - 07/04/05
DNA project to trace human steps - 13/04/05
Jawbone hints at earliest Britons - 27/04/05
Footprints of 'first Americans' - 05/07/05 Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought
Scientists finally study Kennewick Man - 05/07/05
'Fires wiped out' ancient mammals - 08/07/05
Robotics show Lucy walked upright - 20/07/05
Chimpanzee culture 'confirmed' - 22/08/05
First chimpanzee fossils found - 31/08/05
'Proof' our brains are evolving - 09/09/05
Chimps fall down on friendship - 27/10/05
Drought may have shaped history - 07/12/05
Tools unlock secrets of early man - 14/12/05 early humans were living in Britain around 700,000 years ago, substantially earlier than previously thought
SA fossil murder mystery solved - 13/01/06
'Footprints' debate to run and run - 16/01/06
Time changes modern human's face - 25/01/06
Predators 'drove human evolution' - 19/02/06
Ancient skull found in Ethiopia - 27/03/06
Fossils fill gap in human lineage - 12/04/06
Evolution's human and chimp twist - 18/05/06
Study shows apes can plan ahead - 19/05/06
'Hobbit' stirs scientific clash - 19/05/06
New twist in 'hobbit' human story - 31/05/06
Tooth gives up oldest human DNA - 06/06/06 from a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago, found in the Scladina cave in the Meuse Basin, Belgium
Ancient humans 'followed rains' - 21/07/06
Neanderthals' 'last rock refuge' - 13/09/06 the species may have lived in Gorham's Cave on Gibraltar as recently as only 24,000 years ago
'Lucy's baby' found in Ethiopia - 20/09/06
Neanderthal DNA secrets unlocked - 15/11/06
Hungry ancients 'turned cannibal' - 05/12/06
'Little Foot' too young to be our ancestor - 08/12/06
New scan of 'Neanderthal' jawbone - 12/12/06
How the climate changed the story of human evolution - 15/12/06
Clues found for early Europeans - 12/01/07
Freeze 'condemned Neanderthals' - 20/02/07
Incest: an age-old taboo - 12/03/07
'First west Europe tooth' found - 30/06/07
Ethiopia yields ancestral fossils - 11/07/07
Famous fossil Lucy starts US tour - 06/08/07
Finds test human origins theory - 08/08/07
Egypt footprint 'could be oldest' - 21/08/07
Georgia clues to human origins - 19/09/07
Deep-voiced men 'have more kids' - 25/09/07
US army enlists anthropologists - 16/10/07
Cave clue to 'first beachcombers' - 17/10/07
Neanderthals 'were flame-haired' - 25/10/07
Chimps beat humans in memory test - 03/12/07
Ancient skull dug up in Henan may bury 'Out of Africa' theory - Jan 24, 2008
Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old: study - 28/02/08
Skull Changes Show Time of Human-Neandertal Split - 17/03/08
Spain dig yields ancient European - 26/03/08
Study says near extinction threatened people - Apr 24, 2008
Big brains arose twice in higher primates - 09/07/08 Large-brained simians of the New and Old Worlds independently arose from smaller-brained ancestors
Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline - 04/08/08
Uncovering the ultimate family tree - 21/08/08
'Complexity' of Neanderthal tools - 26/08/08
Hugging benefits fractious chimps - 08/09/08
Neanderthal climate link debated - 13/09/08
Neanderthals 'enjoyed broad menu' - 23/09/08
Scientists believe 5,300-year-old mummified 'ice man' belonged to unknown branch of human family tree - 31/10/08 Oetzi has no descendants
Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development - 13/11/08
Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia - 09/12/08
First draft of Neanderthal genome - 12/02/09
Earliest 'human footprints' found - 26/02/09
Zoo chimp 'planned' stone attacks - 09/03/09
Researchers find the earliest evidence of domesticated maize - 24/03/09
Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil - 15/06/09
Bipedal humans came down from the trees, not up from the ground (w/ Video) - 10/08/09
Early hominid first walked on two legs in the woods - 08/10/09
Primate fossil 'not an ancestor' - 21/10/09
Anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies - 03/11/09
Human-like fossil find is breakthrough of the year - 17/12/09
Exploring the Stone Age pantry - 17/12/09
DNA analysed from early European - 01/01/10
Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago - 27/01/10
Why humans outlive apes - 26/01/10
Etched ostrich eggs illustrate human sophistication - 02/03/10
South African fossils could be new hominid species - 08/04/10
Artefacts hint at earliest Neanderthals in Britain - 01/06/10
Humans' early arrival in Britain - 07/07/10
Divers find ancient monkey fossil - 21/07/10


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