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Every man in Spain was wiped out 4500 years ago by hostile invaders

When a new group of people arrived on the Iberian peninsula 4500 years ago, local males stopped passing on their genes – suggesting they were supplanted or killed

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An adult female Neanderthal hand and arm from the left side.

Humans

Neanderthals had dexterous hands that could have held tools like a pen

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Female flies evolved serrated genitals that get in the way during sex

Life

Female flies evolved serrated genitals that get in the way during sex

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Ediacaran fossil

Earth

Earliest known animal was a half-billion-year-old underwater blob

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits a school in Istanbul

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It's an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks

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A volcano on Flores

Humans

Volcanic eruption may have helped drive real-life hobbits extinct

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face

Humans

The 'me' illusion: How your brain conjures up your sense of self

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bonnethead shark

Life

We've discovered a shark that eats plants as a side dish to shellfish

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Elk in the snow

Life

Elk gamble with their lives in spring to win a mate in autumn

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petri dish

Life

We have the power to halt evolution itself – should we use it?

Unwanted mutations are undermining food security and medicine. Controlling such evolution is now possible and tempting, but there will be unintended consequences

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Life

Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it

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Life

Colourful clownfish carry an unusual health warning for predators

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Humans

Prehistoric girl had parents belonging to different human species

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Earth

Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought

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