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human evolution

Destinies

Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

Jonathan Losos's book Improbable Destinies tackles a controversy in biology - and finds that humans aren't all that different from the platypus

Culture

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Life

Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Culture

Researcher in the field measures skin colour

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

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Cavefish

Life

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

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Desert

Earth

Cold climate may have driven ancient humans’ move out of Africa

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Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) in the desert near Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

Life

Evolution’s rules mean life on Earth isn’t that varied after all

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Bushfire near Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya

Humans

Exploding stars could have kick-started our ancestors’ evolution

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We just found nineteen new species of gecko in one tiny area

Earth

We just found nineteen new species of gecko in one tiny area

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beard

Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

Features

Our braininess may have evolved thanks to less sticky neurons

Health

Our braininess may have evolved thanks to less sticky neurons

We don’t know much about the genetic evolution of the human brain. Now experiments suggest genes involved in cell stickiness may have given our brain its folds

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Life

New York City mice may be evolving to eat fast food like pizza

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Life

Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought

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Life

Ancient ‘sea woodlice’ had surprisingly complicated guts

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Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Features

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