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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a health clinic in Jerusalem

Beyond treatment: Reframing health in our ill-health systems

By ALBERT JACOB

Illustrative depiction of the Australopithecus Afarensis

Step this way: When did humans learn how to walk upright? - study

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Reconstruction of what early human ancestor Homo Heidelbergensis may have looked like.

86,000-year-old human bone shows failed expansions out of Africa - study

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Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Newly discovered early Homo Sapien footprint sheds light on evolution

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An artifact from the Mandrin cave in France.

New archeological evidence suggests Homo sapiens settled Europe in waves - study

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Scientist Elena Essel of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology works in the institute’s clean laboratory in Leipzig, Germany on the pierced elk tooth discovered in the Denisova Cave in southern Siberia in this undated handout picture. Scientists have recovered the DNA of a woman.

This pendant is 20,000 years old. Ancient DNA shows who wore it

By REUTERS

An illustrative depiction of early neolithic farming

How did Europe's first farmers survive disease? New study uncovers answers

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Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative)

New study discovers eight new prehistoric human groups

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Four human species are represented here (H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis, H. sapiens).

UK Boxgrove fossils highlight complexities of human evolution in new study

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Wild chimpanzee Fiona shows a leaf to her mother.

Chimpanzees can flex, show off things for attention like humans - study

Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Neanderthals, early humans overlapped in Europe for thousands of years - study

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Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Oldest known humans started walking on two feet 7m. years ago - study

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Mammals from the Pleistocene period.

Humans were cause of rapid animal homogenization in North America -study

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Reconstruction of meat roasting on campfire at the Lazaret Cave, France.

Humans 170,000 years ago were smarter than we think - Israeli study

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Ostriches look at an egg inside an enclosure at an ostrich farm near the village of Kozishche, some 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Minsk, October 6, 2011.

Archaeologists discover oldest social network using ostrich egg beads - study

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Researchers engage in excavations at Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria

Early humans in Europe endured very cold climates, researchers find

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Study finds red ocher markings were painted by Neanderthals in prehistoric cave in Ardales

Prehistoric cave paintings in Spain show Neanderthals were artists

By REUTERS

Hila May, a physical anthropologist at the Dan David Center and the Shmunis Institute of Tel Aviv University holds what scientists say is a piece of fossilised bone of a previously unknown kind of early human discovered at the Nesher Ramla site in central Israel, during an interview with Reuters at

How a bone puzzle helped identify new type of prehistoric human in Israel

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN