Life
The Wider Earth review 鈥� Darwin’s Beagle days make a gripping play
An unusual venue stages an intriguing play about Darwin's Beagle days as London's Natural History Museum turns theatrical鈥搘ith superb puppets as exotic wildlife
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Life
Orangutans are exceptionally good at keeping their infants alive
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Life
Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites
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Life
Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones
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Life
Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck’s Revenge are genetic misfits
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Environment
Anjali Goswami: Digitising life from around the world
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Life
Male birds can be good singers or good looking, but not both
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Life
Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge
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Humans
David Reich: The truth about us, and where we come from
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Humans
You can recognise around 5000 faces, from family to celebrities
For much of human evolution our ancestors may have encountered only a few hundred people in their lives 鈥� but we can each recall about 5000 distinct faces
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Environment
Home of the gentle giants: How humans live with Galapagos tortoises
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Life
T. rex evolved into a monster predator by dumbing down its brain
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Life
Baby giraffes with small and oval markings are most likely to die
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Life
Female flies evolved serrated genitals that get in the way during sex
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