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Tolerance of smoke may have given us an edge over Neanderthals

Modern humans carry a mutation that allows us to deal with health effects of smoke inhalation – something our Neanderthal relatives seem to have lacked

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Neanderthal and human skulls side by side

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Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours

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Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

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Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

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The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

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Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

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Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history

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Our first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago

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Our Neanderthal genes linked to risk of depression and addiction

Having sex with Neanderthals meant some of us still carry their DNA, and with it, a higher risk of depression and nicotine addiction

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Humans adapted to Arctic life 10,000 years earlier than thought

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Uncommon ancestor

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The three ancestral tribes that founded Western civilisation

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