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Emu-style birds have abandoned flight six times

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Emu-style birds have abandoned flight six times

Big ground birds like emus and moas may look alike, but they are only distantly related, and flightlessness evolved six times within 10 million years

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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

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Friendship: Friends with many benefits

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Friendship: Friends with many benefits

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Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

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Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

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Has social living shrunk our brains?

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Has social living shrunk our brains?

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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already

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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already

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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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Neanderthals may have been our intellectual equals

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

About 1.7 billion years ago, evolution seemed to grind to a halt, but a long time later it kicked in with a vengeance – plate tectonics may explain why

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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Spark of life: Metabolism appears in lab without cells

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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