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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

A study of 17 grass species found that 13 of them carry genes that have been transferred from another species, suggesting that gene-swapping happens all the time

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Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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kangaroo hand bones

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Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

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Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

Our distant ancestors may have swung below tree branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee – challenging recent thinking that the earliest hominins did neither

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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