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human evolution

Did two species mix to make butterflies?

Life

Did two species mix to make butterflies?

Ancient hybridisation between an insect and a worm-like creature may have led to the near-magical transformation from caterpillar to butterfly

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Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind

Life

Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind

Features

Evolution 2.0: On the origin of technologies

Life

Evolution 2.0: On the origin of technologies

Opinion

Survival in a post-apocalypse blackout

Earth

Survival in a post-apocalypse blackout

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Where does white skin come from?

Life

Where does white skin come from?

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Why geeks get the girls

Life

Why geeks get the girls

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Pterosaur tracks show it touched down like a bird

Life

Pterosaur tracks show it touched down like a bird

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Earliest fired knives improved stone age tool kit

Life

Earliest fired knives improved stone age tool kit

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Humans may have learned to walk in the trees

Life

Humans may have learned to walk in the trees

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Review: <i>Not a Chimp</i> by Jeremy Taylor

Life

Review: Not a Chimp by Jeremy Taylor

We are not as closely related to chimps as some like to think, a new book says

Books & Arts

Life

Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag

Features

Life

Why humans can talk and chimps can't

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Life

Seafood gave us the edge on the Neanderthals

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Earth

Stowaway insects imperil Darwin's finches

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