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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

23 August 2017

The past 15 years have called into question every assumption about who we are and where we came from. Turns out our evolution is more baffling than we thought
Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

23 August 2017

These fungi influence our brains by producing a compound called psilocybin, but the origin of this chemical may have little to do with discovering fundamental truth
A lake in Antarctica where the R1S1 strain of Halorubrum lacusprofundi was discovered

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

21 August 2017

Viruses are not like other organisms and nobody is quite sure where they originated, but a newly discovered single-celled organism seems to offer a clue

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