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human evolution

There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

Life

There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to reframe the current biodiversity crisis

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Life

Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

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Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination

Mind

Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination

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The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds

Mind

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds

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Sloths repeatedly evolved large and small body sizes

Life

Giant ground sloths evolved three different times for the same reason

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Life

The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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Humans

What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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Swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight chasing a Tsetse fly (Glossina sp.), Kenya, Africa.

Life

Welcome to a great, straightforward guide to the tree of life

Culture

Humans

Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of severe ones

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Life

Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere before moving north – and beyond

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Health

The evolution of easier births means slower walking and pelvis issues

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Life

What the surprising lives of solitary animals reveal about us

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Life

Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them

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Humans

Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

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