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The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

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Unlike Mowgli, humans, in general, aren’t believed to have been raised by animals, although some of them are regarded as close genetic cousins. Chimpanzees, for instance. About 40 miles southeast of ...

Much like our brains, human muscles have evolved several times more rapidly than primate muscles, according to a new study — but that process has made us weaker over time in a process, while brains ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...