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human evolution

Life

Jurassic fossils show modern mammals grow faster than ancient ones

The 166-million-year-old fossils of an adult and a juvenile of the same extinct mammal species reveal that they had longer "childhoods" and lifespans than similar species today

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Life

Chimps respond to each other at a pace similar to human conversation

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Health

Your pupils change size as you breathe

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Humans

Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different environments

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Life

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

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Humans

When did human ancestors start walking on two legs?

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Technology

Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'

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Life

Evolutionary story of Australia's dingoes revealed by ancient DNA

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Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

Humans

Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

Features

The Tropical jungle with river and sun beam and foggy in the garden

Humans

How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The emerging picture of how they lived challenges ideas of human cultural evolution

Features

Humans

Did rock art spread from one place or was it invented many times?

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Life

A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our understanding of evolution

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Life

Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab experiment

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Life

Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution on Japanese island

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