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Keyword - evolution

- Galaxies' collision history revealed - Premium content
  
  Massive mergers sparked bursts of star formation when the Universe was half its age.
  
  2 January 2009
- Terrestrial origin mooted for more microbes - Premium content
  
  More than two-thirds of bacteria may have descended from a land-dwelling ancestor.
  
  28 November 2008
- Genetics of cancer relapse revealed - Premium content
  
  Biologists have tracked the origins and evolution of a type of childhood leukaemia that is deadliest when it recurs.
  
  27 November 2008
- How the turtle got its shell - Premium content
  
  Chinese fossil forces palaeontologists to rethink turtle origins.
  
  26 November 2008
- Darwin 200: Beyond the origin - Premium content
  
  Celebrating the man and the book.
  
  19 November 2008
- Darwin 200: Beneath the surface - Premium content
  
  You might think that once evolution has found one way to get something done, it will stick with it. But similar physical forms can hide radically different wiring, finds Tanguy Chouard.
  
  19 November 2008
- Darwin 200: An eye for the eye - Premium content
  
  A celebration of one of evolution's crowning glories.
  
  19 November 2008
- Microbes drove Earth's mineral evolution - Premium content
  
  A comprehensive history of Earth's mineral wealth concludes that without life, many raw materials wouldn't exist.
  
  14 November 2008
- Like a fish out of salt water - Premium content
  
  The sculpin could reveal how some ocean dwellers made the jump to life in fresh water.
  
  7 November 2008
- Early bird gets the better song - Premium content
  
  Mothers transfer the gift of music to the first eggs of their brood.
  
  24 October 2008