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evolution

guppies

Life

Female fish with bigger brains choose better mates

Colourful male guppies are healthier and better foragers. But using this information to pick a good mate requires female guppies to use more brainpower

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Fish out of water

Life

These fish are evolving right now to become land-dwellers

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Phalaris aquatica, or Bulbous Canary Grass

Life

Plants have evolved a taste for sand that deters hungry insects

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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

Earth

Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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Rove beetles

Life

Sneaky beetles evolved disguise to look like ants, then eat them

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Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo

Life

Translucent helmeted cockroach looks like an alien with a halo

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

Humans

Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

Life

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Haematite tubes protrude from red background

Earth

Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever

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opposite birds 1

Life

The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky

Millions of years ago, the skies were full of birds strangely different from the ones we know today. So how did modern birds come to rule the roost?

Features

Life

Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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Humans

Extinct Neanderthals still control expression of human genes

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Life

Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic

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Life

Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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