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Pacific crickets on Moloka’i are singing a new tune

Life

Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites

In Hawaii, parasitic flies target singing crickets, forcing them to rapidly evolve to escape detection. Now some males have developed a special, seductive purr

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Early fish

Life

Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones

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twins

Life

Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits

Culture

artists impression of neuron

Mind

Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together

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Two people wearing graduation gowns

Mind

Your genes affect which university you go to but that’s no surprise

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Anjali Goswami: Digitising life from around the world

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Anjali Goswami: Digitising life from around the world

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A male peacock

Life

Male birds can be good singers or good looking, but not both

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sponges

Life

Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge

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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from

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David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from

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photos of faces

Humans

You can recognise around 5000 faces, from family to celebrities

For much of human evolution our ancestors may have encountered only a few hundred people in their lives – but we can each recall about 5000 distinct faces

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Environment

Home of the gentle giants: How humans live with Galapagos tortoises

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Humans

People in Chile are currently evolving the ability to digest goat milk

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Life

T. rex evolved into a monster predator by dumbing down its brain

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Life

Baby giraffes with small and oval markings are most likely to die

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