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human evolution

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Humans

Death: A special report on the inevitable

The only certain thing in life is that it will one day end. That knowledge is perhaps the defining feature of the human condition.

Features

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

News

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

News

A woman bent over studying something under a microscope on the floor of a cave

Humans

Our Ice Age ancestors skinned cave lions to make roofs for huts

News

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

News

Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

News

Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

News

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

News

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

News

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

It’s not all downhill after men hit their physical peak – older guys could explain human longevity, argues a new book about male ageing

Culture

Life

Mystery beast in ice age cave art revealed as cow-bison hybrid

News

Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

News

Life

Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories

Features

Life

First birds made honking sounds more than 66 million years ago

News

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