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Unnatural selection: Mutant mosquitoes take the subway

Earth

Unnatural selection: Mutant mosquitoes take the subway

Hundreds of organisms have taken to living with or near humans, from mutant mosquitoes to heavy-seeded weeds, says Michael Le Page

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Unnatural selection: Fish growing up fast

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Unnatural selection: Fish growing up fast

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Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

Life

Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

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Unnatural selection: Introducing invaders

Earth

Unnatural selection: Introducing invaders

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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Earth

Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

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Health

Pesticide exposure in the womb may lower IQ

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Zoologger: Sea anemones spawn mixed-up kids

Life

Zoologger: Sea anemones spawn mixed-up kids

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Woman and newborn baby

Health

New clues to preventing miscarriage or pre-term births

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Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate

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Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate

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Life

Evolutionary Babel was in southern Africa

A new linguistic analysis finds that modern language originated in sub-Saharan Africa and spread across the world with migrating human populations

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Life

First evidence that some dinosaurs were nocturnal

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Life

51¶¯Âþ imam: Muslims need to talk about evolution

Opinion

Life

Hear my chewin': how jawbones evolved into ear bones

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Life

The secret superpower of the cockroach

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