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Google creates self-replicating life from digital 'primordial soup'

A digital "primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating artificial life forms, in an experiment that may hint at how biological life began on Earth

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Evolutionary story of Australia's dingoes revealed by ancient DNA

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Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

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Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

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The Tropical jungle with river and sun beam and foggy in the garden

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How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

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Ancient cave paintings on rocks in Karasay gorge, Taraz, Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan. Petroglyphs Bronze Age and Iron Age rock art; Shutterstock ID 2465182461; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Did rock art spread from one place or was it invented many times?

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F0FBHN Spiral strands of DNA on the dark background

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A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our understanding of evolution

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Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab experiment

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H7XEPK Sika Deer (Cervus nippon) viewed from inside hollow stump, Yakushima Island, Japan

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Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution on Japanese island

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Huge nose of male proboscis monkeys is key to mating success

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FGJJJ1 T lymphocytes and cancer cell. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T lymphocyte cells (smaller round cells) attached

Health

Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments

Researchers have come to see cancers as akin to organisms, existing in complex ecosystems and subject to evolutionary pressures. Now they are targeting cancer’s ability to adapt

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Why did hominins like us evolve at all?

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Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances?

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

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Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants

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