Those ears were made for walking: Peering into the inner ear of fossil skulls may help us solve the mystery of when humans first stood up and walked. But, writes Pat Shipman, it may have an even bigger surprise in store
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Patents: Stopping the pops
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Patents: Get ahead, get a hat
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Science: Did the Earth ever freeze over?
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Science: On the fish farm, boys are best
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Science: Heavy metals found in space
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Technology
Technology: Software agents to roam phone network
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Technology: Biotech shares hit as drugs trials are cut short
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Technology
Technology: Of oysters, ships and sealing wounds . . .
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Technology: Buckyballs add polish to diamond films
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All gas and guesswork: Nations trying to agree practical steps to combat global warming are finding that they do not have the crucial figures. Fred Pearce reports
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Pro-lifers attack fetal egg rules
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Europe's top 100 polluters
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Altered tomato faces ban from British shops
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Drivers ignore smog alert
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Paris 'non' to syringe dispensers
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Schools need more technology teachers, says engineers
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Fantasy fish with something to say
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Unlucky newts
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Mini-moss
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Clipper climb-down
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Clean burn
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Bad company cars
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Jobs go extinct
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Science: Moving target guides drivers round the bend
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Science: When monster shrimps ruled the world
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Science: Orchids thrive by being mean
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Kangaroo caught descending from the trees
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Doctors fail to recognise fatal brain disease
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Battered Jupiter shows its wounds
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Exit Waldegrave, enter Hunt
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Bitter choice for exiled islanders
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Fat-laden food from south of the border
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What a tangled Web they wove...
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Washington Diary: Last words from lawyers and turf accountants Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
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Forum: Hypnotherapy: who is abusing whom? - It's time to bring practitioners under control, says Phil Bagnall
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Forum: Bigger cars for clearer roads
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Forum: Nuclear inquiries go critical - Ian Lloyd fears that we are burying one of our energy hopes in mounds of reports
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Review: Pressing problems, distant solutions
Books & Arts
Review: Everything but the crown jewels
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Review: Adapt or die
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Review: How water's revolution was betrayed
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Review: Quantum theory's magnificient four
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Review: Five thousand years of certitude
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Review: A home fit for ecowarriors
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