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Influenza viruses may have originated in fish 600 million years ago
A flu virus found in a sturgeon resembles the predicted ancestor of all known forms of influenza, hinting that the virus first evolved in fish
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How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up
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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal’s
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Humans
Curly hair may have evolved to protect early humans from the sun
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Health
Millions of coronavirus mutations offer a new insight into evolution
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Mind
The evolutionary origin of paranoia and why it is becoming more common
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Animals that care for young may have more mutations and evolve faster
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Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses
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Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells
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Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52 million years ago
Analysis of fossilised teeth from Ellesmere Island, Canada, reveals that extinct relatives of monkeys and apes reached the Arctic during a period when the climate was hotter
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Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other
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Sloths have double the grip strength of humans and other primates
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Urban lizards have gene mutations that help them adapt to city life
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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator
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