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human evolution

Sentinel-5 seafloor scene

Environment

Could undersea living be the future as sea levels rise?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened

Comment

TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

Health

TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

Features

There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

Life

There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

Features

Life

Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

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Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination

Mind

Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination

Features

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds

Mind

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds

Features

Sloths repeatedly evolved large and small body sizes

Life

Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

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Life

The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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Humans

What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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Swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight chasing a Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.), Kenya, Africa.

Life

Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary relationships

Culture

Humans

Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of severe ones

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Life

Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world

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Health

The evolution of easier births means slower walking and pelvis issues

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Life

What the surprising lives of solitary animals reveal about us

Features

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