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At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

After decades of arguing whether junk DNA exists, a study has calculated that without it we’d all have to reproduce in huge numbers to escape harmful mutations

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Raven

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Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

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fossil teeth

Humans

A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past

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crab spider on a flower

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Spiders lure bees for dinner by making flowers look flashier

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Close-up of a lineated frog

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Frogs may have evolved the first kneecaps on Earth

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Dinosaur fossils

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Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK

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How the living world was changed, by the woman who changed it

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Ancient human skulls

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We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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Teeth of Coronodon havensteini

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‘Missing link’ whale could filter feed and hunt larger prey

A whale that lived 30 million years ago had extraordinary back teeth for sieving out small prey, while its front teeth let it catch big prey too

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Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Life

Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were

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Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

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Life

Wise elk learn to outsmart hunters and tell apart their weapons

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