Humans
Did ‘burrowing’ placenta give us big brains?
A hormone which allows the placenta to push into the wall of the uterus in some primates might also have played a key role in brain evolution
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The language detective
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Life
Bird evolutionary tree given a shake by DNA study
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The most extreme life-forms in the universe
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Viking longships brought rape, pillage and cod
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Commentary: Stop creationists undermining school science
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Can parasites influence the language we speak?
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Follow me: The origins of leadership
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The Ordovician: Life’s second big bang
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Did hyperactivity evolve as a survival aid for nomads?
A gene mutation tied to attention deficit hyperactive disorder is also linked to increased weight in a group of undernourished Kenyan herders
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Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab
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‘Time-travelling’ bugs resist antibiotics of the future
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Rat stowaways date human arrival in New Zealand
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Interview: Why our brains are so clumsy
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