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Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

23 January 2019

Humans once mated with Neanderthals so are we hybrids? How we see ourselves and the rest of nature is changing, raising the question of whether species even exist
Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory

Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory

22 January 2019

Adolf Hitler's deputy flew to Scotland in 1941 and was imprisoned for the rest of his life. But was the man in Spandau really Rudolf Hess? Now a DNA test has revealed the truth

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