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Researchers discover new blood group system – MAL

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Researchers discover new blood group system known as MAL solving a 50- year-old mystery. This will allow identification and treatment of rare patients lacking this group.

This freaky video shows that our pupils shrink with age

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Researchers used a video display of 64 eyeballs, captured with eye trackers, to compare the pupil sizes of younger and older study participants under different lighting conditions. This study confirme...

New fossils from Mata Menge.

Tiny humans known as Hobbits were even shorter

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Tiny humans known as Hobbits were even shorter and they lived 700,000 years ago according to a new analysis.

Brown coasted monkey baby on branch with a somewhat shocked expression and mouth open. Photo by Jamie Haughton on Unsplash

Primates did not evolve big brains to search for food

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Primates did not evolve big brains to search for food according to a new study, which looked at primate food hunting strategies when food was less.

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Rare Fossil Skin Discovery Unveils Evolutionary Transition from Water to Land

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It’s hard to find fossil skin, but a rare discovery reveals clues about the evolution from water to land

An orangutan and a neanderthal face

Podcast Episode 90 l Our two cousins: A neanderthal and an orangutan

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We are discussing two different amazing news items in today's podcast. We have the reconstruction of the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal and then we learn about an orangutan who healed it...

Reconstruction of the face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead. University of Cambridge

The Face of a 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal

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The Face of a 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal has been reconstructed shedding light on the Evolution of our cousins.

a, Trilobite of the genus Ampyx (UCBL-FSL713598). b, Gastropods associated with a tube-like structure, probably the conulariid Sphenothallus (UCBL-FSL713599). c, Biomineralized conulariid cnidarian (UCBL-FSL713600). d, Articulated brachiopods attached to a possible leptomitid sponge (UCBL-FSL713601). e, Assemblage formed of articulated brachiopods (centre), flattened carapaces probably of bivalved arthropods (centre left and right) and a calymenine trilobite cranidium (left; UCBL-FSL713602). f, A hyolith with possible internal organs (UCBL-FSL713603). Scale bars represent 4 mm in a and e, 1 cm in b and d, 5 mm in c, and 2 mm in f.

A 470 Million Year Old Ordovician Site Found in France

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A 470 Million Year Old Ordovician Site has been found in France by amateur paleontologists containing extremely well preserved fauna.

Franklin at work, 1955. She is bent over and looking through a microscope in this black and white image.

Podcast Episode 82 l Rosalind Franklin

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Podcast Episode 82 is on Rosalind Franklin a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer, whose work was central to understanding the structure of DNA.

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