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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to Alison Flood about mantis shrimp, the pleasures of sci-fi and why empathy is so important in his writing

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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?

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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality

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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers

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Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life

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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence is revealing their pivotal role

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

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

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