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evolution

What came first the chicken or the egg?

Question

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Eggs evolved more than a billion years ago, whereas chickens have been around for just 10,000 years. So the riddle is easily solved…or is it?
hominins

Humans

Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies

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cerebellum

Humans

Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution

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The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

Life

The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

Features

chromosomes

Life

A species of yeast produces near-identical clones when it has sex

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

Life

Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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artists image of cell differentiation

Life

Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

Life

Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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comb jelly

Life

Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans need all the help they can get from their senses to stop them making mistakes with their varied diet. Let's hear it for aroma and flavour that helped make them what they are, say Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez in their fascinating book Delicious

Culture

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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Life

Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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Life

Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

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Life

Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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