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Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection

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Photos of a newborn infant being carefully cradled by the medical professional helping to deliver it. The photos are taken from the perspective of the parent giving birth.

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Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally have the answer

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Procoptodon prehistoric kangaroo

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Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size

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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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Common Octopus

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Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains

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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans

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Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and nap like us too

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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Human-plant hybrid cells reveal truth about dark DNA in our genome

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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