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Life

Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

The evolutionary fitness of Atlantic salmon is being damaged by genetic contamination as wild fish breed with escapees from fish farms

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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

Life

Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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Thousands of migrating Snow Geese ( Chen caerulescens ) fly from a misty lake at sunrise in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.; Shutterstock ID 546140620; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Migrating birds may be paler colours to help them keep cool

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A man measures a woman's height

Humans

Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

Humans

Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

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Humans

What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

Humans

Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Upper central deciduous incisor

Life

Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]

Life

New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Life

13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them

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Life

Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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Life

Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

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Humans

Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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Life

Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago

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