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Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

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Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

The oldest compelling fossil evidence for cellular life has been discovered on a 3.43-billion-year-old beach in western Australia

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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

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Plesiosaurs gave birth to big babies

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Plesiosaurs gave birth to big babies

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First life: The search for the first replicator

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First life: The search for the first replicator

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Monkeys did not gain big brains by shrinking guts

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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

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Multicellular yeast shrug off freeloading mutants

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Earth

Thank climate change for the rise of humans

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The end of ageing: Why life begins at 90

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The end of ageing: Why life begins at 90

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Superbugs may be here to stay

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Superbugs may be here to stay

The evolutionary cost of antibiotic resistance should see superbugs disappear once the drugs are removed – but this is not always the case

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Industrial revolution sealed Neanderthals' fate

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Cuban flowers rely on bat signal for survival

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Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch as first bird

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Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

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