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human evolution

Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits

Life

Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits

Darwin was only half-right about evolution: evidence against natural selection is mounting up, argue Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Opinion

First breath: Earth's billion-year struggle for oxygen

Earth

First breath: Earth's billion-year struggle for oxygen

Features

Peter Pan ways make bonobos the most amiable of apes

Life

Peter Pan ways make bonobos the most amiable of apes

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We're built to run barefoot, on our tip-toes

Life

We're built to run barefoot, on our tip-toes

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I, virus: Why you're only half human

Life

I, virus: Why you're only half human

Features

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Life

Bats and dolphins separately evolved same sonar gene

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Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution

Life

Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution

Features

Alligators' bird breath may explain dinosaurs' triumph

Life

Alligators' bird breath may explain dinosaurs' triumph

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Earth

Coral reefs are most fecund cradles of diversity

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Oldest footprints of a four-legged vertebrate discovered

Life

Oldest footprints of a four-legged vertebrate discovered

New evidence that vertebrates walked on Earth some 10 million years earlier than previously believed could change our ideas of where they evolved

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Life

Respect for elders 'may be universal' in primates

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Life

Seats of emotional intelligence found in the brain

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Life

Chimp's dance suggests a mental grasp of fire

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Life

Ducks fight the battle of the sexes in their genitals

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