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Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

Pat Shipman’s book, Our Oldest Companions: the story of the first dogs, explores the surprising story of how humans and dogs came to join forces

Culture

3d illustration of blood cells and Plasmodium sp. parasite

Health

Parasite evolution is making it harder to detect and treat malaria

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Wild chimpanzee walking through a forest

Life

How our ape ancestors suddenly lost their tails 25 million years ago

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

Humans

The microbial gunk that hardens on teeth is revealing our deep past

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Crimson Rosella

Life

Some animals are evolving new body shapes as the climate changes

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Profile view of man with DNA

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Rapidly evolving bits of DNA helped develop the human brain

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An Asian honeybee visits Gnetum luofense

Life

Thieving honeybees offer a glimpse of flowers’ evolutionary origins

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E08ERC Sand dune landscape in Arabian desert.

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We need to fully explore the planet to understand our species' origins

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illustration of faces in the desert

Humans

The other cradle of humanity: How Arabia shaped human evolution

New evidence reveals that Arabia was not a mere stopover for ancestral humans leaving Africa, but a lush homeland where they flourished and evolved

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Life

Artificially stripped-back cell is still able to rapidly evolve

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Life

Ancient comb jelly had more complex nerves than its modern relatives

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Life

Snakes evolved venom fangs multiple times from wrinkles in their teeth

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Life

Two groups of whales evolved massive heads for different reasons

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