Humans
Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle
It鈥檚 an evolutionary mystery how humans and other primates found the energy to support their large brains, but now it seems sacrificing some muscle might have helped
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Bats spread Ebola because they鈥檝e evolved not to fight viruses
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Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true
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The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?
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We’re evolving a gene that may stop us from drinking alcohol
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Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China鈥檚 poultry
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Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females
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We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong
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Our cities are driving evolution and it’s not all bad news
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Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes
A genetic analysis of Cheddar Man, one of the first people to settle in Britain after the last ice age,聽suggests that his skin was dark
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Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age
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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
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Young ‘dinosauromorphs’ may have begged for food like baby birds
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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
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