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Snakes outpacing other vertebrates in race to evolve

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Snakes outpacing other vertebrates in race to evolve

The king cobra and Burmese python are the first snakes to have their genome sequenced, and the results show their genes are unusually prone to change

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Synthetic primordial cell copies RNA for the first time

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Synthetic primordial cell copies RNA for the first time

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Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution

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Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution

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Fire ants writhe to make unsinkable rafts

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Fire ants writhe to make unsinkable rafts

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Zoologger: The world's most skilful predator

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Zoologger: The world's most skilful predator

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Got a spare half a million? A <i>Diplodocus</i> could be yours

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Got a spare half a million? A Diplodocus could be yours

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Losing their dino tail limited size of flightless birds

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Losing their dino tail limited size of flightless birds

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Oldest human genome reveals roots of first Americans

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Oldest human genome reveals roots of first Americans

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Don't bury Europe's remarkable prehistoric culture

Opinion

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

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Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

All over the world, we're finding art tens of thousands of years older than it should be. What awoke our creative minds so early, asks Alison George

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Darwinian business needn't be red in tooth and claw

Opinion

Life

Mystery human species emerges from Denisovan genome

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Neanderthal virus DNA spotted hiding in modern humans

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Is it a sloth? Is it a camel? No, it's a dinosaur

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