Humans
Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in UK
An ancient hominin male and several children were foraging along an estuary in Norfolk almost a million years ago
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Zoologger: Punk Amazon pheasant is a European emigrant
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Humans
Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?
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Humans
Humanity’s forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA
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Environment
Threatwatch: Mother virus of China’s deadly bird flu
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Humans
Neanderthal-human sex bred light skins and infertility
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Environment
3D fossil portrait could be the mother of all spiders
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Health
Ancient European hunter-gatherer was a blue-eyed boy
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Canine GPS vests reveal dog social network
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Life
What separates us from other animals?
We are unlike any other animal, but the differences are surprisingly difficult to pin down. The Gap by Thomas Suddendorf is the most comprehensive attempt yet
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Health
Giant leaps of evolution make cancer cells deadly
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Long-lost lake may have helped humans out of Africa
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Earth
Long-lost lake may have helped humans out of Africa
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Environment
Insect minions banned from breeding by same signal
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