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Chickens for sale

Health

Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry

A woman in China has been infected by a new type of flu. With thousands of people travelling after Chinese new year, the risk of new strains spreading is high

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Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

Life

Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

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We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong

Life

We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong

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An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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Humans

Our cities are driving evolution and it's not all bad news

Culture

Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

Humans

Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

Humans

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

Humans

Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Humans

Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

Features

Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

Life

Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

We thought that our ancestors were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a fossil from an Israeli cave reveals an earlier exodus over 170,000 years ago

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Life

Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

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Humans

Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

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Humans

The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

Features

Earth

The origin of insect wings has been revealed by gene editing

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