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Why are Homo sapiens the only human species left?

Once, we shared our planet with other human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. Today, they're gone, leaving behind fossils, ancient tools and traces of their DNA within our own. So how did Homo sapiens end up as the last humans standing?

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New fossil evidence is reshaping the timeline of Out of Africa

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A 9.5-day-old mouse embryo. The front of the brain is blue and the back of the brain is red, which extends into the spinal cord

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Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged

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Denisovan tooth

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Denisovan tools from cave in China show how mysterious humans lived

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Hyperrealistic face of a neanderthal male is displayed in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern Croatian town of Krapina February 25, 2010. The Neanderthal Museum opened last week and was built on the site where scientists have found the greatest concentration in Europe of Neanderthal remains, the bones, skulls, tools and other effects of an extinct offshoot of mankind who inhabited parts of Asia and Europe until 30,000 years ago. Picture taken February 25, 2010. To match Reuters Life! NEANDERTHAL-CROATIA/MUSEUM REUTERS/Nikola Solic (CROATIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

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What the remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise聽

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The cave where Neanderthals met Homo sapiens

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Did humans evolve to be active throughout the day and night?

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Wildfire in African savanna

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Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution

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We still don’t know when humans began

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What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the latest research on primates to understand how long we鈥檝e had the impulse to adopt furry friends

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The 85-million-year timeline of human evolution

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The genome of a long-extinct ancient human is hiding within us

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Human brains may have got bigger for no particular reason

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鈥楬obbit鈥� hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons

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