Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Energy upgrade
Humans' big brains require extra energy – three mutations may have helped meet that demand
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Gift of the gab
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Helping hand
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Switch to starch
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Health
Pregnancy blood test can identify Down’s syndrome
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Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?
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Life
DNA origami: synthetic tiles can make over 100 shapes
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Environment
Birds got smart by becoming big babes
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Health
RNA breakthrough transforms idea of gene control
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Life
The ancient American bones at centre of two lawsuits
The future remains uncertain for the 9000-year-old remains of two Americans found beneath the University of California in San Diego in 2006
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Touch sensitivity is genetically linked to hearing
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Humans
The humanity switch: How one gene made us brainier
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Health
Thank grandmothers for lower incidence of cancer
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Humans
Blonde hair evolved independently in Pacific islands
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