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Humans

The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

Red hair isn’t all we got from Neanderthals. Without DNA gleaned from extinct human species our ancestors might never have survived Earth’s extremes

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Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

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Life

Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space

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Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

Humans

Missing Y chromosome kept us apart from Neanderthals

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Humans

The truth about migration: How evolution made us xenophobes

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Health

The truth about migration: We're a stay-at-home species

Features

Aquilonifer spinosus in false colour with several young tethered to either side of it

Life

Extinct animal flew underwater kites made of its own young

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James Cook (1728-79) English navigator, witnessing human sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) c1773 during his second Pacific voyage 1772-1775. Engraving from 1815 edition of Cook's Voyages.

Life

Has ritual human sacrifice shaped societies and class systems?

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Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

Life

Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

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Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

Life

Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

Engineering a bacterium that thrives with the smallest feasible string of genes is no vanity project and could have important uses, says Richard Kitney

Opinion

Life

The evolution of the nose: why is the human hooter so big?

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Life

Darwin's beautiful theory must itself be allowed to evolve

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Life

Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution

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Life

Aquatic plant that feeds like a Venus flytrap faces extinction

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