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Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel

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Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel

One man's sacrifice has revealed how his cancer mutated from its emergence to its last lethal change, opening the door to a Darwinian approach to therapy

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Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs

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Missing rock fuelled Cambrian explosion of life

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Missing rock fuelled Cambrian explosion of life

Opinion

Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

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Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

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Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

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Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

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What gives the human mind its edge?

Life

What gives the human mind its edge?

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Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

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Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

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Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

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Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

Features

Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

Life

Mind readers: How we get inside other people's heads

Features

Is this the ancestor of all primates?

Life

Is this the ancestor of all primates?

A tiny fossil from 55 million years ago could be a tarsier, a relative of ours – or it could be the ancestor of all living primates, including humans

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Life

Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes

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Life

'Dawn bird' sees Archaeopteryx return to bird fold

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Life

Silent forests are bad news for the trees

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Life

1 in 13 people have bendy chimp-like feet

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