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Evolution
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Neanderthals and humans interbred more recently than scientists thought
Members of a group including the Zlatý kůň woman and the Ranis individuals travel across Europe some 45,000…
Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?
We will never know who spoke the first sentence or what they said, but we can have some…
Richard Dawkins’s book of the dead is haunted by ghosts of past works
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie Richard Dawkins Yale Univ. Press (2024) Richard Dawkins, the…
The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism
Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed…
The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate
Living in the desert is a challenge. But the Mojave desert woodrat has an ace to play: it…
how consciousness changes the world
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World Peter Godfrey-Smith William Collins (2024) Philosopher…
Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side
A trackway of footprints thought to have been left by a Paranthropus boisei individual Neil T. Roach Preserved…
The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes
More than 2 million years ago, a mutation reduced the power of the chewing muscles in human ancestors.…
Wastes of time — faeces and vomit track how dinosaurs rose to prominence
Marsicano, C. A., Irmis, R. B., Mancuso, A. C., Mundil, R. & Chemale, F. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.…
Turning a scientific lens on the wonderful world of fungi
Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms Richard Fortey William Collins (2024) Richard Fortey,…