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Humans and birds share the same singing genes

Life

Humans and birds share the same singing genes

An intriguing evolutionary similarity might mean that songbirds will make good models for studying the genetics of speech disorders

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How to think about… Evolution

Life

How to think about… Evolution

Features

Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab

Life

Formation of life's building blocks recreated in lab

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Life

'Giant' fossil hints at the diversity of early primates

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Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures

Life

Zoologger: Dancing in time makes crabs sexual failures

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What Pacific islanders have taught me about friendship

Life

What Pacific islanders have taught me about friendship

Opinion

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Life

Alien life arrested by climate catch-22

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Shell 'art' made 300,000 years before humans evolved

Life

Shell 'art' made 300,000 years before humans evolved

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First carnivorous-plant fossil is 40 million years old

Earth

First carnivorous-plant fossil is 40 million years old

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HIV evolves into less deadly form

Health

HIV evolves into less deadly form

A form of HIV that first hit in the 1980s now seems slower and less aggressive, suggesting that the virus may be evolving to be less fatal

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Life

Zoologger: The rodent with a taste for spines

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Life

Bone bonanza: Chamber of secrets yields human remains

Features

Life

Random no more: Evolution isn't down to chance alone

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Earth

Total white out: Snowshoe hares vs global warming

Features

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