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Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

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Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

Early humans may have outcompeted Neanderthals, but their influence lives on in DNA some of us inherited after the two interbred

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Arsenic

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Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic

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Platythyrea and Strumigenys ants

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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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How the world made us: chance and climate in the human story

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Dormouse on ground

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Dormouse might be first tree-climbing mammal shown to echolocate

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cock-eyed squid

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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Dog being petted

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Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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A banner saying Trump is unconstitutional

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Evolved instincts shaped democracy to resist bullies like Trump

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Bacteria in combat

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Vicious microbial warfare helps bacteria evolve cooperation

Bacteria that are more violent towards strangers also seem to share more with similar neighbours, a system that may explain how cooperation first evolved

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the man who shaped biology and art

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Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities

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Ancestor of all vertebrates was a big mouth with no anus

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Giant flying reptile was top predator like a winged T. rex

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