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Neanderthal

Life

We're beginning to question the idea of species – including our own

Are you a human, or a human-Neanderthal hybrid? The concept of the species, one of the most basic in biology, may not be as well-defined as we think

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Volunteers working in soup kitchen

Life

No more goody two shoes: Why true altruism can’t exist

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Graduates holding diploma

Humans

D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think

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Bonobo/Pygmy chimpanzee

Humans

Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong

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pondweed with oxygen bubbles

Environment

Why is Earth so rich in oxygen? The answer is simpler than we thought

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Origolestes lii skeleton

Life

Cretaceous fossils are missing link in mammal ear evolution

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

Humans

A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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Martin Rees

Video

Martin Rees: Humanity's future – predictions for the next century

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Lee Berger at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Live

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Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi

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Fossil of a newly-discovered mammal shows it had bizarre ears

Life

Fossil of a newly-discovered mammal shows it had bizarre ears

A rodent-like creature that lived 120 million years ago in Asia had an unusual ear shape that may have evolved to accommodate its unique way of chewing

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Environment

Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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Life

Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans

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Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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