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Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

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Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

Many plants release chemicals when being eaten to warn their neighbours. The more closely related the plants involved, the more effective the warning

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Zoologger: 'It's a boy!' Monkey midwife delivers baby

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Zoologger: 'It's a boy!' Monkey midwife delivers baby

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Meet our last common mammalian ancestor

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Meet our last common mammalian ancestor

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Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

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Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

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Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales

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Genes mix across borders more easily than folk tales

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Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet

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Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet

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Wallace: Wonders of nature have been solace of my life

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Wallace: Wonders of nature have been solace of my life

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First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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Your molar roots are leftovers from Homo erectus

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The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

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The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

Our taste for alcohol results from an evolutionary tussle between humans and yeast – one in which the microbes have often had the upper hand

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Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

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Bubbles of fat hint at origin of reproduction

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The hologenome: A new view of evolution

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3D print a fossil with virtual palaeontology

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