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Our siblings, according to speculative reconstructions: Homo rudolfensis (East Africa); Homo erectus (East Asia); and Homo neanderthalensis (Europe and western Asia). All are humans. {© Visual/Corbis.}
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
At Wetwang Slack, careful digging and dating allowed the sequence of burials in the cemetery to be disentangled. Clusters formed around primary interments – typically, an older woman buried with beads would be the ‘founder figure’ – her grave forming a focus for subsequent burials of more women, with or without beads. Those gendered clusters also m
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