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Bigger isn't always better for becoming multicellular

Lab experiments with yeast suggest that multicellular tissues and specialised cells could have evolved when the costs of being bigger outweighed the benefits

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Banks gone bad: Our evolved morality has failed us

Life

Banks gone bad: Our evolved morality has failed us

Comment

Should we aim to live like cavemen?

Life

Should we aim to live like cavemen?

Opinion

Farming has deep roots in Chinese ice age

Life

Farming has deep roots in Chinese ice age

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Birds evolve shorter wings to survive on roads

Life

Birds evolve shorter wings to survive on roads

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Four wings bad, two wings better – for early birds

Life

Four wings bad, two wings better – for early birds

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The body: You've got to hand it to the hands

Humans

The body: You've got to hand it to the hands

Features

Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes

Life

Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes

News

Tiny monkey teeth suggest Flores hobbit was a dwarf

Life

Tiny monkey teeth suggest Flores hobbit was a dwarf

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The father of all men is 340,000 years old

Life

The father of all men is 340,000 years old

We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years – but one African American man has broken the mould

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Life

Bunnies implicated in the demise of Neanderthals

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Life

Old dog tricks: The survival of the friendliest

Opinion

Timing was everything when Darwin's bombshell exploded

CultureLab

Life

Sweat mutation may have helped us colonise Asia

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