Humans
Found: closest link to Eve, our universal ancestor
A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity’s common female ancestor – mitochondrial Eve
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Zoologger: No escape from hunting harvestman’s sticky grasp
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Cerebellum’s growth spurt turned monkeys into humans
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The best and worst countries in the world to be old in
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Meet Lonesome George, the face of extinction
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Earth
Finding Nemo is real: Clownfish make epic sea journeys
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The creepy crawly story of life on Earth
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Life
Chances of first life improved by weighted dice
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Life
Primal pull of a baby crying reaches across species
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Health
Human ‘language gene’ makes mice smarter
Putting the human FOXP2 gene – thought to play a role in the development of language – into mice makes them quicker at learning tasks automatically
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Jurassic corpse-eaters revealed by fossil reptiles
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Weird creatures may be relics from dawn of animal life
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Largest land dinosaur yet makes T. rex look tiny
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Shattering DNA may have let gibbons evolve new species
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