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Sleeping Beauties review: The strange nature of nature’s inventiveness
What makes a great new trait evolve and then stay dormant for years? Andreas Wagner's new book explores the innovations of nature 鈥� and human culture
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Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to genome origami
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Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons
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Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves
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Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice
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T. rex鈥檚 terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips
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Our attempts to kill cockroaches forced them to evolve new sex moves
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City life may help Darwin’s finches survive bloodsucking flies
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How daisies make deceptive petals that look like female flies
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How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints
Single-celled organisms that cluster and cooperate provide tantalising insights into the origins of multicellularity, suggesting this step may not be so rare after all
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Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes
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How poisonous amphibians evolve bright colours to warn predators off
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Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human ‘tools’
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Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed
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