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It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

28 August 2017

Our capacity for complex speech might come from tiny tweaks to existing monkey genes that gave us flatter faces and more refined larynxes
Letters from Charles Darwin

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

21 August 2017

A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe

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