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Fossil fruits show flowering plants flourished in time of dinosaurs

Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came to prominence after the Cretaceous mass extinction

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Our verdict on The Selfish Gene: An unpopular piece of popular science

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Our verdict on The Selfish Gene: An unpopular piece of popular science

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Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Archaeopteryx. Artwork of the prehistoric feathered reptile Archaeopteryx which lived around 150 million years ago. Discovered in 1861 in southern Germany, it was the first feathered fossil specimen ever found. Despite possessing bird-like feathers, wings and a wishbone, Archaeopteryx also had sharp teeth, finger digits and a bony tail similar to non-bird predatory dinosaurs. This species and numerous other feathered fossils support the theory that modern day birds evolved from prehistoric theropod dinosaurs.

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New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds

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Alice Roberts: The forgotten origins of the human body

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Alice Roberts: The forgotten origins of the human body

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Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

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New ÒÁÈ˾þà recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New ÒÁÈ˾þà Book Club’s read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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These are the extinct humans that live on in your DNA

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