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What it's like to live with haemochromatosis

Life

What it's like to live with haemochromatosis

What connects the Black Death to a bizarre medical condition that causes people to rust to death? Evolutionary biologist Sharon Moalem has a theory

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Life

We are not guilty of Neanderthalicide

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Stone age chimps were handy with a hammer

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The word: Hominin

Regulars

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Life

The Kiwi's Egg: Charles Darwin and natural selection, by David Quammen

Books & Arts

The ancestor within all creatures

Life

The ancestor within all creatures

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Review 2006: Evolution in action

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Review 2006: Welcoming Neanderthals back into the family

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Did the air belong to mammals first?

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Did the air belong to mammals first?

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Life

Love thy neighbour – so you can kill the others off

Why have we evolved to do altruistic things like giving blood or caring for the sick without expecting them to do the same for us?

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Life

Why altruism paid off for our ancestors

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Life

Neanderthals' fight for survival revealed

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Humans

Creationism creeps into UK schools

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Biological answer to male desertion – in animals

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