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Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

Life

Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

Genomes of 50 whales from different social niches reveal that their varying cultures are also genetically distinct

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Smallish stalagmites vaguely discernible as arranged in a jumbled ring on a limestone cave floor

Humans

Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

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See the best new species discovered over the past year

Life

See the best new species discovered over the past year

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A still from the Jungle Book showing Mowgli standing with King Louie in a temple (which the ape fills) with smaller monkeys looking on

Life

Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

Features

Gigantopithicus AW

Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Features

Two overlapping giraffes facing in opposite directions

Life

Giraffes got their long necks thanks to a few dozen gene changes

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Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

Life

Reef fish get it on with other species at melting pot islands

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Diver surfaces as colleague standing above him holds large mastodon bone

Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

RNA molecules are thought to be some of the earliest self-replicators that led to life. Now their building blocks have been made to self-assemble in a lab

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Life

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

Features

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

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Humans

Thou shalt not tell us how to behave any more

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