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Life
Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck’s Revenge are genetic misfits
Culture
Life
Buzz: A beautiful book shows why modern bees are hippy wasps at heart
Culture
Life
Eye of the shoal: Inside the surprising world of fish
Culture
Health
Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab
Culture
Humans
Our cities are driving evolution and it’s not all bad news
Culture
Humans
Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends
Culture
Environment
Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses
Culture
Environment
The continuing mystery behind the cuteness of tame animals
Culture
Environment
How did the zebra get its stripes?
Culture
Life
We know we are 鈥� but what else is conscious too?
Culture
Life
Required: A moral vision for gene editing
Culture
Earth
One man’s little slice of nature is a historical microcosm
Culture