Evolution

How life changes over time — natural selection, common ancestry, and deep history.

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Nearly all life shares the same genetic code

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Birds are living dinosaurs

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Nature & Animals Evolution

A 10-kilometre asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Many famous dinosaurs were covered in feathers

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More time separates us from T. rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus

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Nature & Animals Evolution

The Great Dying killed nine in ten species

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Tiktaalik: the "fishapod" caught mid-step onto land

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Nature & Animals Evolution

We date dinosaur fossils using radioactive clocks in the rock

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12 Feb 1809

Nature & Animals Evolution

Charles Darwin is born in Shrewsbury

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22 Feb 1997

Nature & Animals Evolution

Scientists unveil Dolly, the cloned sheep

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1 Jul 1858

Nature & Animals Evolution

Darwin and Wallace's theory of evolution was first read aloud

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15 Sep 1835

Nature & Animals Evolution

Darwin's Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands

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24 Nov 1859

Nature & Animals Evolution

Darwin's On the Origin of Species went on sale

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23 May 1707

Nature & Animals Evolution

Carl Linnaeus, father of modern taxonomy, is born

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27 Dec 1831

Nature & Animals Evolution

Charles Darwin set sail aboard HMS Beagle

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