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evolution

A young juvenile male bonobo is groomed by his mom in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve.

Life

Bonobo mothers stand guard and chase off rivals while their sons mate

Bonobo mothers help their sons with hook-ups, guard the young lovers while they mate, and even haul rival males off females mid-sex

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Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

Life

Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

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Olivia Rossanese outside the unfinshed Cancer Drug Discovery Centre

Health

Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments

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Fossil teeth could change our understanding of human evolution

Humans

Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

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Stylephorus chordatus is one of several species with extra eye pigment genes

Life

Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision

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The red-billed leiothrix is a non-native species in Hawaii

Life

Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades

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Hell's Gate in New Zealand is being used as an open-air laboratory

Life

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

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Atlantic killifish

Life

Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins

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speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Features

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Humans

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Is a written culture necessary to make a better culture or better citizens? A smart, satisfyingly deep exhibition at the British Library leaves us wondering

Culture

Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

Features

Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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Health

Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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Life

Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed

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