Life
Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed
Rather than wars between groups, violence in early societies was most often due to personal clashes within the same society, a controversial study suggests
News
Life
Rules of evolution go a bit random if you’re small
Opinion
Life
A tall tale: How the sauropod got its neck
Features
Humans
First look into workings of the Neanderthal brain
News
Environment
Chimps have experimented with sex more than humans
News
Humans
The strange ape that’s rewriting our family tree
Features
Humans
Voice almighty: Decoding speech’s secret signals
Features
Humans
Control sex for humanity’s future
Culture
Environment
Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home
News
Humans
Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years
Thousands of years before flowers were cultivated, humans were using them to line the graves of their peers
News
Life
Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone
News
Humans
Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating
News
Life
Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins
Regulars
Health
The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving
Opinion