Life
Bugs and tongues reveal human march across Pacific
Shifts in gut bacteria and language have been used to track how migrants from a single region spread right across the south Pacific some 5000 years ago
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Life
Hormones help women spot supercute babies
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Life
Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
Features
Life
Editorial: Uprooting Darwin’s tree
Opinion
Life
Competition drives evolution of ‘super sperm’
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Life
Colourful pigs evolved through farming, not nature
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Earth
Nut-cracking monkeys find the right tool for the job
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Earth
Did life begin in a pool of acidic gloop?
Features
Humans
How novels help drive social evolution
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Humans
Neanderthals might have made good blood donors
Two of the extinct, ancient humans had type O blood, making them the "universal donor", according to a new genetic analysis
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Life
Artificial molecule evolves in the lab
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Humans
On the trail of early humans
Opinion
Health
Review: Freaks of Nature by Mark S. Blumberg
Books & Arts
Earth
Darwin missed ‘earliest’ Galapagos species
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