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South African fossils halfway between ape and human

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South African fossils halfway between ape and human

A 2-million-year-old pair of fossil skeletons have a bizarre mix of primitive and modern features, and may mark a key step in human evolution

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Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all

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Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all

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Svante Pääbo: The man rewriting human evolution

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Svante Pääbo: The man rewriting human evolution

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Death in dolphins: do they understand they are mortal?

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Death in dolphins: do they understand they are mortal?

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Your brain chemistry existed before animals did

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Your brain chemistry existed before animals did

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Evolutionary theory can make street life better

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Sex at sea lets female elephant seals stay in control

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Sex at sea lets female elephant seals stay in control

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Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

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Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

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Plesiosaurs gave birth to big babies

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Plesiosaurs gave birth to big babies

Fearsome sea monsters they may have been, but the finding that plesiosaurs gave birth to single babies suggests they cared for their young

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First life: The search for the first replicator

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Monkeys did not gain big brains by shrinking guts

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Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

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Multicellular yeast shrug off freeloading mutants

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