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A tiny change to an inner ear bone led bats to evolve into two groups
The two major groups of bats diverged tens of millions of years ago, and the main difference between them lies in a tiny inner ear bone
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How much more contagious could the coronavirus get?
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Some bee colonies have to kill thousands of 鈥榮elfish鈥� wannabe queens
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Why cat-like creatures vanished from North America for 6 million years
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A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler
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What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris
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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon
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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?
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Migrating birds may be paler colours to help them keep cool
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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal
Dig down, and evolution by natural selection is just about spontaneous, sustained accumulation of complexity 鈥� if life elsewhere exists, it鈥檚 likely to develop in the same way
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Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller
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Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication
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Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago
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Brainless sponges have cells that might be the precursors of neurons
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