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human evolution

United plates of America: The making of a new world

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United plates of America: The making of a new world

The collision of North and South America changed the Earth's climate dramatically – and may have happened far earlier than we thought

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Fishing has driven evolution of smaller Alaskan salmon

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Early hominin women had wanderlust

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American Muslim clerics sign up for evolution

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Reindeer gained UV vision after moving to the Arctic

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Reindeer gained UV vision after moving to the Arctic

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Meet the top 10 new species of 2010

Meet the top 10 new species of 2010

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Man's best friends: How animals made us human

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Man's best friends: How animals made us human

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Zoologger: Clone army steals genes from other species

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Zoologger: Clone army steals genes from other species

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Early mammals were brainy and nosy

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Early mammals were brainy and nosy

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Zoologger: The snail that's bust a gut to become toxic

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Zoologger: The snail that's bust a gut to become toxic

While most gastropods scrape up algae, the dastardly cone snail harpoons its food and paralyses it with poison

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Rewriting the textbooks: No such thing as reptiles

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Rewriting the textbooks: When a gene isn't a gene

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Animals having fun

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Oxygen oases saved first animals from asphyxiation

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