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Archaeopteryx. Artwork of the prehistoric feathered reptile Archaeopteryx which lived around 150 million years ago. Discovered in 1861 in southern Germany, it was the first feathered fossil specimen ever found. Despite possessing bird-like feathers, wings and a wishbone, Archaeopteryx also had sharp teeth, finger digits and a bony tail similar to non-bird predatory dinosaurs. This species and numerous other feathered fossils support the theory that modern day birds evolved from prehistoric theropod dinosaurs.

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91av recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall

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Alice Roberts: The forgotten origins of the human body

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Alice Roberts: The forgotten origins of the human body

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Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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91av recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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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

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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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

Thanks to ancient interbreeding, the human species we thought had vanished live on inside you

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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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