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How was Earth's life kindled under a cold sun?

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How was Earth's life kindled under a cold sun?

An overheated greenhouse, a faster spin, a giant sun, a game of planetary billiards: what explains how Earth got so warm so fast, asks Stuart Clark

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Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links

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Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links

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Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

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Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

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Zoologger: 'It's a boy!' Monkey midwife delivers baby

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Zoologger: 'It's a boy!' Monkey midwife delivers baby

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Meet our last common mammalian ancestor

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Meet our last common mammalian ancestor

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Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

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Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

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Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales

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Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales

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Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet

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Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet

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Wallace: Wonders of nature have been solace of my life

Life

Wallace: Wonders of nature have been solace of my life

Opinion

Life

Your molar roots are leftovers from Homo erectus

Our teeth erupt later than they did in our early ancestors, but not so the roots of our molars: they develop as they did in Homo erectus

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Earth

The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

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Life

First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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Life

Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

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Life

Wolves bite back in the human world

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