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Our ancestors may have come close to extinction 900,000 years ago
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'Scent of eternity' worn by ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed
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Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago
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The human Y chromosome has been fully sequenced for the first time
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