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evolution

The evolutionary mystery of flying may finally be cracked by genetics

Life

The evolutionary mystery of flying may finally be cracked by genetics

Finding out how flight evolved or animals moved onto land is all about a collision of palaeontology and genetics, argue two new books

Culture

Running legs

Humans

Our ancestors may have run a million years earlier than we thought

News

E coli bacteria

Life

Bacteria sacrifice themselves when under attack to save their colonies

News

John Cleese

Humans

Monty Python's Silly Walk is exactly 6.7 times more silly than normal

News

Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

Humans

Homo erectus used two different kinds of stone tools

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Abiogenesis

Life

First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients

News

Foot

Humans

We have only just figured out how human feet work

News

sea turtle hatchlings

Life

Why climate change is creating more female sea turtles and crocodiles

Features

Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells

Life

Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells

News

ape skulls and brains

Humans

Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans

Our ape cousins have asymmetrical brains just like we do, which might require us to rethink ideas on the evolution of brain specialism in our hominin ancestors

News

Humans

DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals 'ghost' human ancestor

News

Humans

Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why

Comment

Life

The mysterious microbes shifting humanity's place in the tree of life

Features

Humans

A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years

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