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Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Humans

How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans. Recent archaeological discoveries, like stone tools, are revealing how they lived

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Life

Anemones are first known animals to follow the sun like plants do

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Adult patiria starfish

Life

Starfish don't have a body - they're just a big squished head

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Life

Flatworms can either regrow lost heads or reproduce sexually, not both

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FRANCE - CIRCA 2002: Eve, 1896, by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (1865-1896), pastel and gouache, 49x46 cm. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images); . (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Comment

Eve review: Why women's bodies belong at the heart of human evolution

Culture

Male Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

Life

Why birds' eyes can be blue, green, pink or orange

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Humans

Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 million years ago

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Sea life in the Ordovician period

Life

Ocean life surged 500 million years ago due to cooler sea temperatures

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The desire for legacy is a mental glitch but we can use it for good

Humans

The desire for legacy is a mental glitch but we can use it for good

Features

Carolina Sphinx Moth (Manduca sexta)

Technology

Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight

Researchers built tiny robots that can switch between two different kinds of flight, one involving unusually fast wing-flapping, to better understand insect evolution

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Life

Ancient trilobite stuffed itself with food almost to bursting point

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Earth

Nearly all mammals will go extinct in 250 million years as Earth warms

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Life

Armour-plated mollusc fluoresces brilliant red-pink

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Life

Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earlier than we thought

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