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Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins played out

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Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

Humans

Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

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Humans

Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

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BRDEHN Evolution sign on a theme park ride.

Life

The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

Life

The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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Comparison between fossil footprints thought to be from Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei

Humans

Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

Life

Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Heart cockle shells

Life

Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

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Life

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

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Humans

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the scientists who have studied her say that this fossil gave us a misleading image of the nature of her species

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Life

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

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Life

Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution

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Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Life

Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life

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