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Life on the edge: Saving the world's hotbeds of evolution

It's a radical new approach to saving nature: don't obsess about individual species, safeguard the places on the bleeding edge of evolutionary change instead

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Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

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Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

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Comet over mountainous landscape

Earth

Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet

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Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

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Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

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Smallish stalagmites vaguely discernible as arranged in a jumbled ring on a limestone cave floor

Humans

Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

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A still from the Jungle Book showing Mowgli standing with King Louie in a temple (which the ape fills) with smaller monkeys looking on

Life

Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

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Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

Humans

Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

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Gigantopithicus AW

Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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Two overlapping giraffes facing in opposite directions

Life

Giraffes got their long necks thanks to a few dozen gene changes

Comparing the genome of the giraffe and its shorter-necked okapi relative has pinpointed genes likely involved in the evolution of the long neck

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Life

Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

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Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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