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Top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023

A visit to the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

All the hominins made tools

Tracing the signature of African-to-Neandertal gene flow

Lecture: Opening new frontiers in human origins

Homo erectus keeps getting older

Guide to Sahelanthropus, Orrorin and Ardipithecus

Interaction and mixture: big picture and small

Guide to Australopithecus species

The real story of myosin, jaw muscles, and ancient brains

When did human chromosome 2 fuse?

Climate models, Neandertals, and Denisovans

Tracing the genetic histories of ghost apes

Research highlight: Growth and development in human origins

Ancient apocalypses and limits of evidence

What did Neanderthal visual culture mean?

Research highlight: Homo naledi teeth

Ghostbusters of human origins

Did two pulses of evolution supercharge human cognition?

Lecture: Finding ancient minds in the human evolutionary tree

What color were Neandertals?

New evidence is revealing the ages of death, birth, and menarche in Neandertals

Explaining the X chromosome hole in Neandertal ancestry

Many people have a little Neandertal in the brain. Does it matter?

When did our ancestors start looking up to the stars?

Solving the mystery of the Red Deer Cave people

Probing the pathogens that afflicted ancient humanity

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