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First life: The search for the first replicator

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First life: The search for the first replicator

Life must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself – and now we think we know how to make one. Michael Marshall reports

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Monkeys did not gain big brains by shrinking guts

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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

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Multicellular yeast shrug off freeloading mutants

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Thank climate change for the rise of humans

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The end of ageing: Why life begins at 90

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The end of ageing: Why life begins at 90

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Superbugs may be here to stay

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Superbugs may be here to stay

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Industrial revolution sealed Neanderthals' fate

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Cuban flowers rely on bat signal for survival

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Cuban flowers rely on bat signal for survival

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Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch as first bird

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Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch as first bird

A new feathered dinosaur from China is so similar to the iconic "earliest bird" that it has kicked Archaeopteryx out of the avian family tree

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Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins

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Life

Dim polar light drove humans to evolve larger eyes

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Life

Read all about it: Why we have an appetite for gossip

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Existence: Will we die out?

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