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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

The female of the species has incorrectly been cast as a coy and submissive Victorian housewife. This couldn't be further from the truth, says Lucy Cooke

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

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Inhaling leaded petrol as a child may affect an adult's IQ

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Leaded petrol may have lowered the IQ of over half the US population

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The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

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View of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), a large natural history museum containing the skeleton of the Tyrannosaur

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Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

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Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

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An artist's impression of prehistoric mammal from the early Cretaceous period

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106-million-year-old virus found ‘fossilised’ in the human genome

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Interoception: This ‘sixth sense’ could be key to better mental health

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Interoception: This ‘sixth sense’ could be key to better mental health

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Covid-19 news archive: January 2022

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Covid-19 news archive: January 2022

This is an archive of the ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ daily covid-19 news update from January 2022. See updates from November/December 2021, September/ October 2021, July to September 2021, June/ July 2021, May 2021, March 2021, February 2021, January 2021, November/December 2020, and March to November 2020.

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A tiny change to an inner ear bone led bats to evolve into two groups

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How much more contagious could the coronavirus get?

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Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of ‘selfish’ wannabe queens

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Why cat-like creatures vanished from North America for 6 million years

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