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The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

Red hair isn’t all we got from Neanderthals. Without DNA gleaned from extinct human species our ancestors might never have survived Earth’s extremes

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Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

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Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

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Life

Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space

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Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

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The truth about migration: We're a stay-at-home species

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Aquilonifer spinosus in false colour with several young tethered to either side of it

Life

Extinct animal flew underwater kites made of its own young

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James Cook (1728-79) English navigator, witnessing human sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) c1773 during his second Pacific voyage 1772-1775. Engraving from 1815 edition of Cook's Voyages.

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Has ritual human sacrifice shaped societies and class systems?

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Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

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Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

The tiny crustacean's superpowers include "seeing" even though it's got no eyes, and living on even after being frozen alive in its icy cave habitat

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Life

Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

Opinion

Life

The evolution of the nose: why is the human hooter so big?

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Life

Darwin's beautiful theory must itself be allowed to evolve

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Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

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