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Evolution

Life

Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing the remains belonged to the ancient ancestors of rhinoceroses and elephants

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Life

Orcas are bringing humans gifts – what does it mean?

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Life

Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease

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Health

Women’s pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?

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The word 'language' being highlighted in a dictionary.

Humans

Ancient humans only evolved language once, but why?

Features

Humans

Our big brains may have evolved because of placental sex hormones

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Life

Ancient monstersaur had ‘goblin-like’ teeth and sheddable tail

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Health

TB’s extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

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Life

There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

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Life

Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting temperatures over the past 50,000 years

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Life

Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

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Life

The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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Life

Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

Culture

Humans

Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of severe ones

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