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Health
The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia
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Environment
The ingenious priest who discovered how bats ‘see’ in the dark
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Environment
The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world
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Environment
Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers
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Earth
Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet
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Humans
Island of wild children: Would they learn to be human?
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Life
Is the answer to life, the universe and everything 37?
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Earth
Evolution’s traps: When our world leads animals astray
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Humans
Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints
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Earth
Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?
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Environment
Lone wolf: The beast that shouldn’t have been
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Earth
Heaven scent: The grey gold from a sperm whale’s gut
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