Evolution
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A love of complex smells and flavours gave our ancestors an edge and stopped hangovers
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Absence of smaller dinosaurs may be result of adolescent megatheropods crowding them out
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Event 42,000 years ago combined with fall in solar activity potentially cataclysmic, researchers say
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DNA from teeth found in Siberia permafrost the oldest yet sequenced, pushing science into ‘deep time’
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New study of fossils suggests arrival in northern hemisphere long after meat-eating cousins
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Calf carcass from thawing ground in north-east region of Yakutia found with many internal organs intact
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Scientists hope remains, thought to be up to 5,000 years old, will deepen knowledge of whale species and of rising sea levels
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