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Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome

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Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome

The genes of a boy who died 12,600 years ago show that all indigenous people in the Americas seem to be descended from the same group of ancestors

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Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off

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Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off

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A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites

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A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites

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The eyes have it

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Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

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Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

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Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home

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Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home

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Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in UK

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Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in UK

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Zoologger: Punk Amazon pheasant is a European emigrant

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Zoologger: Punk Amazon pheasant is a European emigrant

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Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

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Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

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Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA

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Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA

Our species spread across the world from its African heartland about 60,000 years ago – but 3000 years ago, some humans went back to the homeland

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Threatwatch: Mother virus of China's deadly bird flu

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Neanderthal-human sex bred light skins and infertility

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3D fossil portrait could be the mother of all spiders

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Ancient European hunter-gatherer was a blue-eyed boy

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