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evolution

Life

Huge nose of male proboscis monkeys is key to mating success

Male proboscis monkeys use their enormous noses to make loud trumpeting sounds, and the organ’s size advertises their health and status to prospective mates and rivals

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FGJJJ1 T lymphocytes and cancer cell. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T lymphocyte cells (smaller round cells) attached

Health

Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments

Features

Humans

Why did hominins like us evolve at all?

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Humans

Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?

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Eastern Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) hatching from egg. Captive, occurs in South East Europe.

Comment

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

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Humans

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago

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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

A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – an event so rare that there are only three other known cases

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Life

Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of right-handedness

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Humans

The unexpected reasons why human childhood is extraordinarily long

Features

Life

Extinct freshwater dolphin from the Amazon was largest of all time

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Humans

Ancient campsite may show how humans survived volcanic super-eruption

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