Life
Culture club: All species welcome
From lay-a-bed meerkats to fish traditions, all sorts of animal behaviour comes from learning as well as genes. So what makes humans different?
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Environment
Zoologger: A primate with eyes bigger than its brains
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Life
History’s biggest lungfish pops up in Nebraska
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Earth
Human evolution was shaped by plate tectonics
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Humans
Evolutionary sex wars continue despite peace treaties
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Humans
Our ancestors had to grow bigger brains to make axes
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Earth
Mixed midterm blessings for science and the environment
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Humans
Sharp Stone Age spearheads were cooked then flaked
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Life
Did life begin with a bolt from the deep blue?
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Life
Thank ancient fertiliser for complex life
A great global ice age could have fertilised a slew of new plants, leading to the rise of modern animals
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Life
Giant virus with tiny victims carries a monster genome
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Life
Why complex life probably evolved only once
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Life
Creationism lives on in US public schools
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Life
The chaos theory of evolution
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