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human evolution

calcite crystals

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

Humans living 100,000 years ago in what is now the Kalahari desert spent time collecting crystals, challenging the idea that human behaviours like symbolism emerged along coasts

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vampire bat

Life

Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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kangaroo hand bones

Life

Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

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guanacos

Life

Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

Life

Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

Humans

Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

Life

Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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hominin skull

Humans

Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Humans

The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Features

Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

Humans

Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

We too often turn to insulting people’s brain power – and that closes off our ability to understand others, argues Melanie Challenger

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Health

First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Humans

Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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Humans

Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

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Humans

The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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