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human evolution

Hell's Gate in New Zealand is being used as an open-air laboratory

Life

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

Nearly 4 billion years after life arose on Earth, researchers have been trying to recreate the first steps towards life in hot, bubbling pools in New Zealand

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Atlantic killifish

Life

Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins

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speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Features

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Humans

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Culture

figure in sea

Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

Features

hominin jaw

Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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father and baby

Health

Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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Archocyrtus kovalevi likely fed on the nectar of gymnosperms

Life

Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed

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Callao cave

Humans

New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

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This illustration shows an artistic reconstruction of two individuals of Peregocetus, one standing along the rocky shore of nowadays Peru and the other preying upon sparid fish. The presence of a tail fluke remains hypothetical.

Life

Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim

A fossil discovered in Peru shows that early whales managed to spread around the world while they were still capable of walking on land

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Humans

Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

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Life

Albino lizards are the world’s first genetically modified reptiles

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Humans

Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA

Features

Earth

Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life

Features

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