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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do
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![Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]](https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/23130516/PRI_211648445.jpg)
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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal
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Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller
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Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication
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Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago
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Brainless sponges have cells that might be the precursors of neurons
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Vipers evolved either nose or eye horns depending on their habitat
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Haunting lemur songs have a rhythm similar to human music
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Female African elephants evolved to lose tusks due to ivory poaching
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Australia's unusual western swamp turtle is an oddity under threat
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T. rex with feathers: China’s fossils are rewriting the dinosaur story
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Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends
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