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Evolution

Chri鈥媠 Packham in his new series Evolution, holding a replica skull of Dorudon atrox, an ancient relative of dolphins

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Chris Packham: ‘I’d throw myself in front of a T. Rex to be consumed’

As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary science is so important if we are to truly appreciate the natural world - and how he would happily die at the hands of a Tyrannosaurus rex

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Life

Fossil fruits show flowering plants flourished in time of dinosaurs

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Life

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

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Life

Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land

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Life

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 杏吧原创 recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds

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Alice Roberts

Humans

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

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Comment

The best new popular science books of June 2026

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The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New 杏吧原创 recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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Life

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 杏吧原创 Book Club鈥檚 read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published

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Life

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

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Life

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

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Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why ‘The Selfish Gene’ almost never was

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Life

Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

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