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evolution

Chimpanzees and a child

Humans

We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees

People seem to be able to understand gestures made by chimpanzees, suggesting the signals may be remnants of a basic sign language used by our last common ancestors

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European populations have accumulated many mutations

Humans

Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years

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The cranium was discovered in Ethiopia

Humans

We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors

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Bee

Life

How killer bees evolved into chiller bees in just one decade

Features

How walking helped humans take over the planet

Humans

How walking helped humans take over the planet

Culture

The team have imaged Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum using electron microscopes

Life

Deep-sea microbe could answer one of evolution's biggest mysteries

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Heracles inexpectatus lived in New Zealand

Life

World’s largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago

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Chris Stringer

Life

Don't Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds

Culture

Artist's impression of two feathered oviraptor dinosaurs

Life

Birds can thank attractive dinosaurs for their flight feathers

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Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

Life

Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

More than half a billion years ago, this predator cruised the seas in what is now Yunnan, China. The remarkable fossil is on display in a new exhibition

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Humans

Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago

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Humans

James Lovelock says artificial intelligence is the start of new life

Regulars

Humans

Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought

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Health

Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn't make much difference

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