Evolution
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How did the patriarchy start – and will evolution get rid of it?
In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress…
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Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years?
READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we…
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Humanity’s birthplace: why everyone alive today can call northern Botswana home
The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favoured contender – until today. Vanessa Hayes The Conversation Our…
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Where does altruism come from? Discovery of ‘greenbeard’ genes could hold the answer
A classic example is meerkat cooperation. Authors The Conversation When the group is foraging for food, one individual will head…
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How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can’t be explained by natural selection alone — so how did it come…
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To feel happier, we have to resolve to the life we evolved to live
When we have to give a talk to a group of people, we feel anxious and experience the bodily fear…
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The surprising role cheese played in human evolution
A solid white mass found in a broken jar in an Ancient Egyptian tomb has turned out to be the…
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How a DNA revolution has decoded the origins of our humanity
Mapping the genomes of our ancestors has allowed scientists to uncover secrets and discover new mysteries in our evolution Robin…
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Why is it nice to be nice? Solving Darwin’s puzzle of kindness
World Kindness Day is a global 24-hour celebration dedicated to paying-it-forward and focusing on the good Eva M Krockow Andrew…
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Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says
Board of education chairman says subject is debatable, controversial and too complicated for students Kareem Shaheen and Gözde Hatunoğlu in…
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Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find
The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa.…
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The 100 best nonfiction books: No 60 – On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
Darwin’s revolutionary, humane and highly readable introduction to his theory of evolution is arguably the most important book of the……
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Life may actually be getting better at evolving
The networks of genes in each animal is a bit like the network of neurons in our brains, which suggests…
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Hello, again, Dolly
Twenty years ago the world met the first adult clone, a sheep called Dolly. Her legacy lives on.. The Economist…
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Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
Australia was once home to giant reptiles, marsupials and birds (and some not so giant), but the extinction of this…
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Humanity may self-destruct, but the universe can cope perfectly without us
Chances are that the cosmos neither treasures nor regrets humans. Lionel Shriver The Guardian It permits us, with marvellous neutrality,…
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