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evolution

Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats

Humans

Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats

A 52-million-year-old ankle bone hints at first primates jumping rather than clambering from tree to tree – but what drove them to evolve this way is a mystery

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A third of UK adults question evolution. Does that matter?

Life

A third of UK adults question evolution. Does that matter?

Comment

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

Humans

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

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illustration of Hongyu chowi

Life

Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land

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Picture showing one of the footprints discovered on a Greek island

Humans

Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa

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The silhouettes of two people sat talking over a table

Humans

It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

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Biathletes

Humans

Male athletes with higher world rankings are better looking

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Features

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

Life

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe

Culture

Life

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

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Life

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

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Life

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

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Earth

Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution

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