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Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human

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Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human

Most of us can distinguish a million or more hues. A winding evolutionary path led to this amazing ability – and perhaps to our explosion of brainpower

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Stag beetles' unwieldy jaws are surprisingly slick in flight

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Stag beetles' unwieldy jaws are surprisingly slick in flight

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Women may have pioneered hunting with weapons

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Women may have pioneered hunting with weapons

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Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton

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Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton

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Did neurons evolve more than once on Earth?

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Did neurons evolve more than once on Earth?

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I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

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I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

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Large cache of giant lemur bones found in flooded cave

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Large cache of giant lemur bones found in flooded cave

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Tongues may have evolved from a mouthful of water

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Tongues may have evolved from a mouthful of water

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Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight

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Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight

Millions of years ago, plant seeds started spinning like rotors in order to be dispersed by the wind, but they had to lose one of two wings to do it well

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Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

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Chameleons don't change colour, they use smart mirrors

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The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry

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Zoologger: Moustache helps hipster spider catch prey

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