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Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

Earth

Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

It might sound incredible, but many animals are shrinking – and they will become ever tinier in the centuries to come

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Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales

Life

Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales

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Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet

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Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet

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Wallace: Wonders of nature have been solace of my life

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Wallace: Wonders of nature have been solace of my life

Opinion

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Your molar roots are leftovers from Homo erectus

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The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

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The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

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First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

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Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

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Bubbles of fat hint at origin of reproduction

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Bubbles of fat hint at origin of reproduction

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The hologenome: A new view of evolution

Life

The hologenome: A new view of evolution

Far from being passive hangers-on, symbiotic microbes may shape the evolution of the plants and animals that play host to them

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Life

3D print a fossil with virtual palaeontology

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Wolves bite back in the human world

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Life

Pruney fingers give us better grip underwater

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Life

Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?

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