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Cosmic accidents: Inventing language, the easy way

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Cosmic accidents: Inventing language, the easy way

Fresh pastures meant a cosier life for early humans – if they hadn't, we would never have loosened up enough to learn to speak

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Cosmic accidents: Brains or brawn – which was best?

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Cosmic accidents: Brains or brawn – which was best?

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Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining

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Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining

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City-dwelling helped us evolve resistance to disease

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Cousin virus suggests HIV may be deadly for millennia

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Cousin virus suggests HIV may be deadly for millennia

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Religious rite gives evolution a helping hand

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Religious rite gives evolution a helping hand

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Turing formula poses plain origin for intricate skins

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Turing formula poses plain origin for intricate skins

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Thank the ur-worm for Shakespeare's brain

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Thank the ur-worm for Shakespeare's brain

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Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy?

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Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy?

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Cost-cutting bacteria reap benefits of energy thrift

Building throwaway proteins on the cheap gives bacteria an evolutionary advantage

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Master gene-shuffler makes us all different

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Thank mothers for large ape brains

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How animals evolved personalities

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Success, not size 0, makes women want to eat less

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