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<em>The Society of Genes</em>: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

Life

The Society of Genes: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

Has the "selfish gene" metaphor had its day? A new book about evolutionary biology prefers its analogies to come from modern society's complex relationships

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The Lumiere festival gets set to light up the London night

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The Lumiere festival gets set to light up the London night

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California's massive methane leak prompts action to capture it

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California's massive methane leak prompts action to capture it

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<em>The Visit</em>: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

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The Visit: What aliens would really mean for us as humans

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Illustration of woman's head with a baby playing inside it

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Busting the baby brain myth: Why motherhood makes minds sharper

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Plastic grass could cover buildings to produce energy from wind

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Plastic grass could cover buildings to produce energy from wind

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<em>Home</em>: It's where the heart is – and now we know why

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Home: It's where the heart is – and now we know why

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<em>Dark Matter and the dinosaurs</em>: A quest for grown-ups

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Dark Matter and the dinosaurs: A quest for grown-ups

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Phones could be making us less human, but does it matter?

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Phones could be making us less human, but does it matter?

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Why we need to go on talking about trauma

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Why we need to go on talking about trauma

On the ninth of the 12 days of CultureLab, Shaoni Bhattacharya finds we are steadily learning to look trauma in the eye

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How poetry can be a shortcut to truths science tries to discover

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Saving the natural world may rely on memories of its beauty

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Next year in books: CultureLab's choicest reads for 2016

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Here Be Dragons: Hostile aliens, tall people and black holes

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