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Life

Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

Dig down, and evolution by natural selection is just about spontaneous, sustained accumulation of complexity – if life elsewhere exists, it’s likely to develop in the same way

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A top (dorsal) view of a day 16-19 human embryo

Health

Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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Humans

Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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2C72R3H Rock carvings from the bronze age with a scene where two men with dogs and spears hunting a huge wild boar. One of the dogs is dead. The carvings are

Humans

Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

Culture

Ancient faeces sitting on a rock

Humans

Ancient faeces show Iron Age miners ate blue cheese and drank beer

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Ripening wheat field in the UK

Environment

It’s now easier to run trials testing CRISPR-edited crops in England

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Wild chimpanzee walking through a forest

Life

How our ape ancestors suddenly lost their tails 25 million years ago

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

Health

Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

Humans

The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

Features

E08ERC Sand dune landscape in Arabian desert.

Humans

We need to fully explore the planet to understand our species' origins

The study of human evolution has neglected huge areas of Earth, and recent discoveries from Arabia suggest these places have a lot to tell us

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Humans

The other cradle of humanity: How Arabia shaped human evolution

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Life

Harvestman genome helps explain how arachnids got grasping legs

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Humans

Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

Features

Humans

Most detailed human genome sequence yet reveals our hidden variation

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