Humans
Hints of oldest human skin found on ape-like ancestor
An Australophithecus sediba fossil may yield new clues to our evolution if skin traces are confirmed – such as when we lost our body hair and left the trees
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Orange-lipped teenager relaxes after clay lick
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How flower power paved the way for our evolution
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Humans
Stone tools helped shape human hands
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Health
Transparent brains make neuroscience clearer
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Life
Baby dinos pumped their muscles inside the egg
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Health
We must wake up to the threats of new chemical weapons
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Environment
Female great whites reveal long-range mating secrets
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Earth
Corals can survive warmer seas if humans don’t meddle
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Old salt lizard at home in Darwin’s primal landscape
Photographer Sebastião Salgado sets the armour-like scales of the world's only seafaring lizard among the hard landscape of the Galapagos Islands' laval rocks
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The brain: Milestones of neuroscience
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The brain: More than one way to map a mind
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The brain: From tiny neurons to expansive minds
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Humans
The brain: Looking over the neuroscience horizon
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