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I refer to his second most important book, The Descent of Man, written in 1871. As Wiker points out, "Reading Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man forces one to face as unpleasant truth: that if ...

Soda lakes might hold the key to the emergence of life on Earth. These unique environments could have concentrated the ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Trump’s tariffs erect a wall between Americans and other people, obstructing the flow not only of goods but also of ideas, ...

One of the world's leading scholars on bats brings her research and expertise to the public in an illustrated new book.

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"So much work on the origin of multicellular life focuses on chemistry. We wanted to investigate the role of physical forces in the process," says lead author Shashank Shekhar, Assistant Professor ...

The period is associated with the origin and evolution of modern humans in Africa. In Eurasia, it's linked to the development of several archaic human groups such as Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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Using them was his way of exploiting her and grooming her. The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. Gripping tale of the lines on which espionage meets the ...