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Evolution

August 2024

  • A Homo floresiensis skull

    ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

  • A fossil seen from the dorsal (top) side (left) with spines covering the body (right).

    Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors

July 2024

  • Jonathan Kennedy

    Men are spending more time looking after their children – and it’s not just cultural, it’s in their genes

    Jonathan Kennedy
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith.

    Philospher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’

  • National Museums Scotland's Dr Elsa Panciroli with enlarged, 3D printed models of krusatodon kirtlingtonesis skeletons. Photo (c) Duncan Mc Glynn (1) fossil rodent thing

    Early mammal could help answer one of biology’s biggest question, say experts

  • Komodo dragon

    Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth, scientists find

  • Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

  • Modern-day dingoes already established across Australia thousands of years ago, research finds

  • Inheritance by Harvey Whitehouse review – the power of unity

June 2024

  • Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis female, on display at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

    Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

  • A mammoth tusk in a riverbed

    Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths, scientists say

  • Pembroke Castle

    Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

  • Black fossilised teeth

    Smallest known great ape, which lived 11m years ago, found in Germany

  • Three boys left ‘completely speechless’ after finding T rex bone in North Dakota

  • Play time
    The Colour of Dinosaurs review – fascinating family show with raptor-ous revelations

  • Notes and queries
    Readers reply: why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

May 2024

  • Jonathan Kennedy

    Scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old herpes virus – and perhaps how modern humans came to rule the world

    Jonathan Kennedy
  • An artist’s impression of Australia’s age of monotremes, with the ‘echidnapus’ at bottom right

    ‘Enormously exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

  • A photographer takes pictures of a reconstruction of a neanderthal man at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany, in 2004

    Notes and queries
    Why do neanderthals have such a bad reputation?

  • Remnants of prehistoric worm Radnorscolex latus, unearthed in Herefordshire

    Remnants of prehistoric marine worm unearthed in Herefordshire

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