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

Signs that our ancestors reached Australia 120,000 years ago may be "difficult to credit", but recent discoveries have shattered many similar preconceptions

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Earth

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

Features

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Humans

Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought

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Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

Earth

Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

Features

Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved

Life

Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved

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How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories

Life

How the zebra got its stripes: The problem with 'just-so' stories

Analysis

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Life

Controversial fossils suggest life began to move 2.1 billion years ago

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Earth

How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

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Humans

Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

Features

Ancient kangaroos

Life

Australia has been home to hopping kangaroos for 20 million years

It was thought that kangaroos evolved to hop when Australia’s climate dried out, but it now seems their relatives were hopping much earlier

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Life

Is the idea of species now more trouble than it is worth?

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Life

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

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Life

Exclusive: 600-million-year old blobs are earliest animals ever found

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Life

Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk

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