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Baby apes

Life

Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil

We thought that walking on all fours like a gorilla is more primitive than walking on two legs as humans do. But new fossils suggest even very ancient apes walked upright

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Richard Dawkins

Life

Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion

Features

Chimpanzees and a child

Humans

We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees

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European populations have accumulated many mutations

Humans

Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years

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The cranium was discovered in Ethiopia

Humans

We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors

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Bee

Life

How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade

Features

How walking helped humans take over the planet

Humans

How walking helped humans take over the planet

Culture

The team have imaged Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum using electron microscopes

Life

Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution's biggest mysteries

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Heracles inexpectatus lived in New Zealand

Life

World’s largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago

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Chris Stringer

Life

Don't Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds

This week, listen to a founder of Out-of-Africa theory, read about our deadliest enemy, the mosquito, and explore the future of human and robot minds

Culture

Life

Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers

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Life

Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

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Humans

Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago

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Humans

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

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