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Why Are Human Babies So Helpless?
By Mindy Weisberger published
Human babies require years to learn basic survival skills like walking and feeding themselves.
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Why Neanderthals Likely Fathered Few Kids with Modern Humans
By Charles Q. Choi published
Neanderthal men carried a Y chromosome that often may have led to miscarriages if or when Neanderthals and modern humans got together, new research suggests.
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Trace Your Ancient Human Ancestry with New Map
By Jennifer Viegas published
The map reveals how extensively past interbreeding has affected people alive today.
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Nom Nom! Paleo Diet Helped Humans Evolve Speech
By Charles Q. Choi published
Scientists who forced volunteers to chew raw goat flesh (yes, chew) have found that such meat-gnawing likely caused human teeth and jaws to shrink throughout our evolutionary history.
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Rare Charles Darwin Letter Fails to Sell at Auction
By Knvul Sheikh published
A handwritten letter by famed naturalist Charles Darwin to a British marine biologist was to be auctioned off yesterday (Feb. 25) by Nate D. Sanders Auctions, a Los Angeles-based auction house.
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Food for Thought: Human Teeth Likely Shrank Due to Tool Use
By Charles Q. Choi published
Wisdom teeth may have shrunk during human evolution as part of changes that started with human tool use, according to a new study.
![New genetic research suggests that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred about 100,000 years ago, which is much earlier than thought.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BcrDcdTrFQLZrYTXisaY9L-320-80.jpg)
Fertile Crescent? Neanderthals & Humans Likely Bred in the Mideast
By Charles Q. Choi published
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Neanderthal-Human Trysts May Be Linked to Modern Depression, Heart Disease
By Charles Q. Choi published
Ancient trysts between Neanderthals and modern humans may have influenced modern risks for depression, heart attacks, nicotine addiction, obesity and other health problems, researchers said.
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