Life
Evolutionary story of Australia’s dingoes revealed by ancient DNA
Dingoes, the native wild dogs of Australia, arrived on the continent more than 3000 years ago and their gene pool has had little input from domestic dogs
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Humans
Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future
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Humans
How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation
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Life
A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our understanding of evolution
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Life
Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab experiment
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Life
Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution on Japanese island
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Life
Huge nose of male proboscis monkeys is key to mating success
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Health
Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments
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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution
Culture
Life
Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants
Using genomic data from more than 9500 species, biologists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants
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Life
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
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Life
Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals
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Life
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
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Life
Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of right-handedness
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