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A species of yeast produces near-identical clones when it has sex

Saccharomycodes ludwigii is a sexually reproducing species, but it doesn’t mix up its genes before it mates – which means offspring end up being almost identical to the parents

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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artists image of cell differentiation

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Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Why do we yawn?

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Why do we yawn?

comb jelly

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Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

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calcite crystals

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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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vampire bat

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Vampire bats might avoid bitter substances to dodge indigestion

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kangaroo hand bones

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Large extinct Australian kangaroo spent half its life in trees

A 50-kilogram kangaroo that lived 40,000 years ago in what is now Australia spent half its time living in trees – an unusual adaptation for a kangaroo of that size

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Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious ‘ghost’ relatives

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Bizarre 'manta shark' slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago

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Humans

Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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