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Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

Humans

Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

It was thought that the ancestor we share with lemurs, monkeys and apes evolved in Asia, but fossil analysis suggests this may not have been the case

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stylophoran fossil

Life

Bizarre fossil that baffled us for years is early starfish ancestor

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tungara frog

Life

City living makes urban male frogs far more attractive to females

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Humans

Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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cave art handprint with missing fingers

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Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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humpback whale

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Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean

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The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

Humans

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

We used to think that our pre-historic switch to farming restricted our diets and deprived us of nutrition, but new evidence suggests this wasn’t the case

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Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

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Humans

The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise

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Humans

Modern lifestyles shaped our evolution only a few thousand years ago

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Life

An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean

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