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English guidebook opens China's floral treasure chest

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English guidebook opens China's floral treasure chest

A guide to China's 31,000 plants - including 15,000 found nowhere else – could unearth evolutionary secrets or point to drugs for HIV and malaria

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Complete skull of 1.8-million-year-old hominin found

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Complete skull of 1.8-million-year-old hominin found

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Did Africa's Great Lakes boost our ancestors' brains?

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Did Africa's Great Lakes boost our ancestors' brains?

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Chimp calls suggest language evolved from a song

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Chimp calls suggest language evolved from a song

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Hunter-gatherers got on fine with Europe's first farmers

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Hunter-gatherers got on fine with Europe's first farmers

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Life's purpose: Can animals guide their own evolution?

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Life's purpose: Can animals guide their own evolution?

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Why we are all accidental musicians

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Why we are all accidental musicians

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The secret life of science in the second world war

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The secret life of science in the second world war

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Prehistoric avian had unique dual-purpose tail

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Prehistoric avian had unique dual-purpose tail

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Hunter, gatherer… architect? Civilisation's true dawn

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Hunter, gatherer… architect? Civilisation's true dawn

The discovery of huge temples thousands of years older than agriculture suggests that culture arose from spiritual hunger, not full bellies, says David Robson

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Texan creationism showdown may 'contaminate' textbook

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DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution

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Fish fossil suggests our skeleton evolved face first

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Books and apps make animal-spotting easier than ever

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