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Human evolution

The road to humanity was a long one, and we are still exploring its byways. It began in Africa some 7 million years ago when our lineage split from that of our closest living relatives the chimpanzees

Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones

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Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones

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Complex cells may have evolved due to a shortage of trace metals

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Complex cells may have evolved due to a shortage of trace metals

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Rise of measles linked with emergence of large cities 2500 years ago

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The first dinosaurs may have laid soft eggs without hard shells

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Einsteins Unfinished Revolution

10 of the best non-fiction science books to read right now

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Is there an evolutionary benefit to being bald?

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Is there an evolutionary benefit to being bald?

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sabre-toothed anchovy

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Ancient anchovies were huge and used sabre teeth to eat other fish

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How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery

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How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

Science is still struggling to define what life actually is, and how it came to be. Now, Paul Davies argues that an answer is at last in sight.

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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Earth's first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism

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Europe’s cave bears may have died out because of their large sinuses

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Humans

We may now know what our common ancestor with Neanderthals looked like

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