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London Underground mutant mosquitoes have surprisingly ancient origins
Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago
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How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth dearly
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How our ancestors invented clothing and transformed it into fashion
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Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again
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Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?
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The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism
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Life
The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
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Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side
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Life
Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans
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Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics
Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them 鈥� and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables
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A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved
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Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains
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Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution
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Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life
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