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A palimpsest of artifacts on a glacial landscape

Looking at the traces of wear on tools used by capuchin monkeys

Research highlight: Making ancient DNA more ethical

An update to the 23andMe ancestry algorithm, how it constructs a model of ancestral populations

Why does ethical ancient DNA sampling seem so complicated?

Research highlight: A look at the questions raised by Homo naledi

Research highlight: How the pandemic must change field research

Research highlight: Sexual dimorphism in the relationship between the gut and pelvis

Goat immunity modified by introgression during and after domestication

Neandertals got 6% of their genomes from Africa

The genetic ancestry of modern lions

How much Neandertal DNA do today's African peoples have?

The transition to Middle Stone Age from Acheulean did not make humans more deadly

An enormous sample sheds light on the Denisovan ancestry of people in Iceland

Chicken ancient DNA and artificial selection during medieval times

How much have baboons and geladas hybridized during their evolution?

There are no “anatomically modern” elephants. Why do we treat humans differently?

Lecture: How Homo naledi matters to our origins

Research highlight: Introducing a juvenile skeleton of Homo naledi

How old is the "early Homo sapiens" skull from Florisbad?

Cooking rhizomes in the Middle Stone Age

Part of a Denisovan mtDNA resides in the nuclear genomes of many living people

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