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human evolution

The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

Life

The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

Platypuses glow in UV light, produce venom and lay eggs. Yet despite their oddities, their newly sequenced genome illuminates the evolution of mammals

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How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Humans

How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Features

chromosomes

Life

A species of yeast produces near-identical clones when it has sex

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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artists image of cell differentiation

Life

Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

Life

Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Why do we yawn?

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Why do we yawn?

comb jelly

Life

Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Culture

calcite crystals

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

Humans living 100,000 years ago in what is now the Kalahari desert spent time collecting crystals, challenging the idea that human behaviours like symbolism emerged along coasts

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Life

Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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Life

Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

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Life

Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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Life

Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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