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Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

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Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

A 700,000-year-old bone from permafrost has yielded the oldest verbetrate genome, hinting that extinct polar creatures and hominins could be sequenced too

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Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins

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Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins

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The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving

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Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel

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Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel

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Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs

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Missing rock fuelled Cambrian explosion of life

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Missing rock fuelled Cambrian explosion of life

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Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

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Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

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Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

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Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

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What gives the human mind its edge?

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What gives the human mind its edge?

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Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

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Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

55 million-year-old Archicebus is the oldest primate skeleton found, the closest we've come to discovering our origins, and suggests we evolved in Asia

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Life

Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

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Life

Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

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Life

Is this the ancestor of all primates?

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'Dawn bird' sees Archaeopteryx return to bird fold

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