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Charles Darwin

Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun

Features

Comment

The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever

Culture
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Natural selection
elephants holding instruments

Life

Most animals can’t keep a beat despite what Darwin believed

Culture
chimp

Life

A chimp’s hug shows it’s time to accept that animals have feelings too

Culture
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Mind

It’s not an illusion, you have free will. It’s just not what you think

Features
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Earth

Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life

Features

Life

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

Features
marine iguana

Life

Lost ‘Darwinia’ islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos

News
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Life

The Wider Earth review – Darwin’s Beagle days make a gripping play

An unusual venue stages an intriguing play about Darwin's Beagle days as London's Natural History Museum turns theatrical–with superb puppets as exotic wildlife

Culture

Life

Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck’s Revenge are genetic misfits

Culture

Environment

Don’t miss: Darwinian premiere, what’s really real and sun science

Culture

Earth

The epic hunt for the place on Earth where life started

Features

Life

‘Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture