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human evolution

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

Life

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

There is an urban myth that dogs can smell human emotions, now it seems to be true: dogs can sense a person’s emotional state just by sniffing a sample of their sweat

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

Earth

The mass extinction that might never have happened

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Destinies

Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Culture

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture

Researcher in the field measures skin colour

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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Cavefish

Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Desert

Earth

Cold climate may have driven ancient humans’ move out of Africa

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Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) in the desert near Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

Life

Evolution’s rules mean life on Earth isn’t that varied after all

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Bushfire near Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya

Humans

Exploding stars could have kick-started our ancestors’ evolution

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We just found nineteen new species of gecko in one tiny area

Earth

We just found nineteen new species of gecko in one tiny area

The discovery of so many closely-related vertebrate species within such a small area is unprecedented

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Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

Features

Health

Our braininess may have evolved thanks to less sticky neurons

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Life

New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza

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Life

Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought

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