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human evolution

Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

Life

Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

Genetic analysis of colourful surgeonfish from the Indo-Pacific show that most of them are hybrids of fish that became separate species hundreds of thousands of years ago

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Diver surfaces as colleague standing above him holds large mastodon bone

Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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skeleton in graveyard

Life

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

Features

human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

Three skulls, black background

Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

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Humans

Thou shalt not tell us how to behave any more

Leader

confession

Humans

Why are religions so judgemental? Ask evolution

Features

Lizard on reddish wall

Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

Anole lizards have a talent for evolution, and it's not confined to the wild – urban-dwellers have evolved new traits to help them climb windows and walls

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Environment

Smallest perching bird’s long-lost family revealed by genetics

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Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

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Earth

Inside the lost cave world of the Amazon's tepui mountains

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

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