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Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution

Humans

Inbreeding shaped the course of human evolution

Many early humans were highly inbred, according to a new genetic analysis. Their isolation may explain why modern behaviour took so long to arise

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Beating cancer by blocking off its escape routes

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Tomato plight

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The germ detectives: Tracking the DNA to patient zero

Health

The germ detectives: Tracking the DNA to patient zero

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Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells

Health

Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells

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Nose to beak with a Christian hero heavyweight champ

Life

Nose to beak with a Christian hero heavyweight champ

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Tube worm lights up the undersea night with vitamin B

Life

Tube worm lights up the undersea night with vitamin B

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Perfection is a myth, show 50,000 bacterial generations

Life

Perfection is a myth, show 50,000 bacterial generations

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Musical mind-reading can name that tune

Life

Musical mind-reading can name that tune

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Written in blood: Your life history in just one drop

Life

Written in blood: Your life history in just one drop

From a happy childhood to cancer, the ups and downs in your life are recorded by labels on your DNA – and there's no law to stop anyone from reading them

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Life

Zoologger: Sea slugs stab partners in head during sex

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Life

Genetic clue to high heart risk of black Americans

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Life

Alga takes first evolutionary leap to multicellularity

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Life

This Rembrandt is science's first Asian elephant

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