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evolution

Olivia Rossanese outside the unfinshed Cancer Drug Discovery Centre

Health

Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments

Most people who die of cancer are killed by drug-resistant tumours. Can a new research centre focusing on developing anti-evolution treatments change that?

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Fossil teeth could change our understanding of human evolution

Humans

Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

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Stylephorus chordatus is one of several species with extra eye pigment genes

Life

Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision

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The red-billed leiothrix is a non-native species in Hawaii

Life

Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades

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Hell's Gate in New Zealand is being used as an open-air laboratory

Life

51¶¯Âþs dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

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Atlantic killifish

Life

Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins

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speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Features

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Humans

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Culture

figure in sea

Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

Features

hominin jaw

Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

A study of some 8-million-year-old teeth found in Greece suggests a controversial idea: that hominins arose in Europe and then moved into Africa later

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Health

Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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Life

Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed

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Humans

New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

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Life

Amazing four-legged fossil shows how walking whales learned to swim

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