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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

The evolutionary fitness of Atlantic salmon is being damaged by genetic contamination as wild fish breed with escapees from fish farms

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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem

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Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem

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Migrating birds may be paler colours to help them keep cool

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ANKARA, TURKEY - MARCH 31 : A worker uses a metal cutter on a rail on Ankaray subway line during night shift in Ankara, Turkey on March 31, 2018. Long rapid transit line of the Ankara Metro system has been operating for 23 years. Ankaray operates approximately 180 runs on daily basis, with 11 cars. Length of the transit line reaches about 9 kilometers. Night shift workers compete against time while cutting old rails and replacing them with the new ones until the first run in the morning. (Photo by Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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Night-shift workers who eat only in the day may cut diabetes risk

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A man measures a woman's height

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

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What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Upper central deciduous incisor

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

A tooth from a Neanderthal child who lived 120,000 years ago suggests that our cousin species began cutting their baby teeth at 4 months – earlier than for the average modern human

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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