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Review: How storytelling shaped humanity

Life

Review: How storytelling shaped humanity

You can't understand literature without understanding the minds that read it, according to English professor Brian Boyd – and vice versa

Books & Arts

Review: <i>Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution</i>

Life

Review: Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution

Books & Arts

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Life

Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime

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Are humans cruel to be kind?

Life

Are humans cruel to be kind?

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Earth

Earliest animal traces solve time-gap mystery

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Life

Quantum arguments for God veer into mumbo-jumbo

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Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island human

Life

Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island human

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Dancing parrots could help explain evolution of rhythm

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Quack remedies spread by virtue of being useless

Health

Quack remedies spread by virtue of being useless

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Life

Huge gene study shines new light on African history

The largest-ever study of the genomes of people from across Africa provides "spectacular insight into the history of African populations"

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Life

Sponge larvae: Your unlikely ancestors

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Life

Early domestic animals were surprisingly well bred

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Earth

Did asbestos help life evolve?

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Life

Scholars at odds over mysterious Indus script

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