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Running legs

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Our ancestors may have run a million years earlier than we thought

We thought hominins evolved to run around 2 million years ago – but a study of the famous Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, suggests she could run too

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John Cleese

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Monty Python's Silly Walk is exactly 6.7 times more silly than normal

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Foot

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We have only just figured out how human feet work

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ape skulls and brains

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Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans

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DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals 'ghost' human ancestor

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DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals 'ghost' human ancestor

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Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why

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Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why

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Fossil teeth

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A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years

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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans

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DNA from ancient skeletons reveals a lost branch of modern humans

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Homo erectus

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Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java

Homo erectus probably only arrived on Indonesia about 1.3 million years ago, even though they were widespread in Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier

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Homo erectus lived recently enough that it may have met Denisovans

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Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2019's science stories

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Space

Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth

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How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

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