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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Two 9.7-million-year-old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

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Destinies

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Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

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Researcher in the field measures skin colour

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Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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Cavefish

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Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Desert

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Cold climate may have driven ancient humans’ move out of Africa

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Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) in the desert near Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

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Evolution’s rules mean life on Earth isn’t that varied after all

While there are millions of species on Earth, many of them have almost identical lifestyles, suggesting nature is more regular and rule-based than we thought

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Exploding stars could have kick-started our ancestors’ evolution

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We just found nineteen new species of gecko in one tiny area

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Health

Our braininess may have evolved thanks to less sticky neurons

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New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza

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