Humans
Sharp thinking: How shaping tools built our brains
How did we become the smartest creatures on Earth? The story of our ancestors' mental leaps can be found in stones – a modern-day flint-knapper is our guide
Features
Health
Pancreatic cancer’s killer trick offers treatment hope
News
Life
Origin of organs: Thank viruses for your skin and bone
News
Environment
Zoologger: Sabre-toothed frog is an evolutionary loner
News
Environment
Dog brains respond to calls just like human brains
News
Humans
Our blender brain: How mixing ideas made us human
Opinion
Life
First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen
News
Life
The reptile labour that lasted 248 million years
Regulars
Humans
Britain’s earliest humanity in epic exhibition
Culture
Life
Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology
The excellent Ten Thousand Birds takes us from the obsessive bird collectors of Darwin's time to the fully fledged scientists of today
Culture
Humans
Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy’s genome
News
Environment
Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off
News
Humans
A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites
News
Environment
Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home
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