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Life

Richard Dawkins’s biomorphs come back to life

These computer-based life forms have lain dormant for decades; now they're ready to teach a new generation the secrets of good breeding

Macaques using stone tools

Environment

鈥楳onkey archaeology鈥� reveals macaque鈥檚 own Stone Age culture

Illustration of a supernovae

Humans

Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour

Hot spring

Life

Ancient enzyme resurrected from the ancestor of all bacteria

A fragment of human jaw

Humans

Mystery human hobbits ruled tiny Asian island 700,000 years ago

rainforest

Environment

Life on the edge: Saving the world’s hotbeds of evolution

Life

Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

Comet over mountainous landscape

Earth

Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet

Environment

Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

Smallish stalagmites vaguely discernible as arranged in a jumbled ring on a limestone cave floor

Humans

Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

Rings of stalagmites on a cave floor were arranged by our extinct human relatives, hinting at their sophistication and intelligence

Environment

See the best new species discovered over the past year

Environment

Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

Environment

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Life

Giraffes got their long necks thanks to a few dozen gene changes