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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

Studies that reduce human sexuality to two neat categories – gay and straight – are bad science and stoke societal prejudice, says neuroethologist Andrew Barron

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bumblebee

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Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar

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whale shark

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Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths

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jelly-like substance

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Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly

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Why I’m growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab

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Why I’m growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab

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Evolution of the eye

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Evolution of the eye

Why do we have sex?

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Why do we have sex?

How did complex life evolve?

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How did complex life evolve?

Great white shark

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The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions

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Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father

Life

Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father

DNA analysis of an unusually shaped skull found in west Greenland suggests the creature was a hybrid male whale, with a narwhal mother and beluga father

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Mind

Our astonishing brain is hard to figure out – and that's fantastic

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Endolysins

Mind

Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain

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What is a species?