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Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

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Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

Evidence for the origins of complex language can be found in creative two-word insults such as busy-body and kill-joy

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Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

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BRDEHN Evolution sign on a theme park ride.

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The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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Comparison between fossil footprints thought to be from Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei

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Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Heart cockle shells

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Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

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A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

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Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil

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Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life

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How the evolution of citrus is inextricably linked with our own

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