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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

This is an archive of the ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ daily covid-19 news update with updates from September to October 2021. See updates from July to September 2021, June and July 2021, May 2021, March 2021, February 2021, January 2021, November/December 2020, and March to November 2020.

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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A top (dorsal) view of a day 16-19 human embryo

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Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

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Wild chimpanzee walking through a forest

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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

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

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

The study of human evolution has neglected huge areas of Earth, and recent discoveries from Arabia suggest these places have a lot to tell us

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The other cradle of humanity: How Arabia shaped human evolution

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92

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New fossil finds show we are far from understanding how humans evolved

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