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Life

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

We are the only animal to bury its dead, and we have been doing it for a very long time. These moving, fascinating finds reveal how the human mind has evolved

Features

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Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

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Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

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Humans

Thou shalt not tell us how to behave any more

Leader

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Humans

Why are religions so judgemental? Ask evolution

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Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

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A pygmy bushtit

Environment

Smallest perching bird’s long-lost family revealed by genetics

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The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

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A spectacular landscape of cliffs with a waterfall plunging down to a crater and rocky pinnacles in the background

Earth

Inside the lost cave world of the Amazon's tepui mountains

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience

CultureLab

Humans

The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

Features

Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

Features

Life

Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space

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Humans

Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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