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human evolution

comb jelly

Life

Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

The neurons of comb jellies are a peculiar shape and use chemicals not found in the brains of other animals – hinting they might have evolved independently of other neurons

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Culture

calcite crystals

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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vampire bat

Life

Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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kangaroo hand bones

Life

Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

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guanacos

Life

Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

Life

Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

Humans

Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

Life

Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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hominin skull

Humans

Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

Our distant ancestors may have swung below tree branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee – challenging recent thinking that the earliest hominins did neither

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Humans

The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Features

Humans

Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

Comment

Health

First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Humans

Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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