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How fish evolved to walk – and in one case, turned into humans

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17 March 202317 March 2023

When you think about human evolution, there’s a good chance you’re imagining chimpanzees exploring ancient forests or early humans daubing woolly mammoths on to cave walls. But we humans, along…Read More >

How fish evolved to walk – and in one case, turned into humans

Is racism and bigotry in our DNA?

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11 June 20203 November 2021

As part of The Conversation‘s ‘Life’s Big Questions’ series, Tom Oliver, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and author of ‘the Self Delusion’ explains why humans, although fundamentally cooperative, need…Read More >

COVID-19: addressing conspiracy theories

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20 May 202020 May 2020

Conspiracy theories can help us construct order out of disorder, but they can be dangerous. During the COVID-19 pandemic, outlandish theories about the source of the illness have gained a…Read More >

Our most popular papers of 2018

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28 December 20183 November 2021

Which Reading research publications got the most attention across the globe in 2018? We’ve scoured Altmetric data to bring you the top eight most talked about Reading-authored papers of the…Read More >

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