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Atlantic killifish

Life

Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins

One fish is thriving in polluted areas after mating with another species, suggesting threatened species could be saved by deliberate hybridisation

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speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Features

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Humans

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Culture

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Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

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hominin jaw

Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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father and baby

Health

Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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Archocyrtus kovalevi likely fed on the nectar of gymnosperms

Life

Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed

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Callao cave

Humans

New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

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This illustration shows an artistic reconstruction of two individuals of Peregocetus, one standing along the rocky shore of nowadays Peru and the other preying upon sparid fish. The presence of a tail fluke remains hypothetical.

Life

Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim

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Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

Humans

Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

A new analysis of a rare hominin specimen has revealed what may be the earliest known dental abscess – a painful mass of pus growing inside the jaw – in the Homo genus

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Life

Albino lizards are the world’s first genetically modified reptiles

News

Humans

Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA

Features

Earth

Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life

Features

Humans

Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind

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