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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

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Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

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Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

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Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

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