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Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed

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Vendettas, not war? Unpicking why our ancestors killed

Rather than wars between groups, violence in early societies was most often due to personal clashes within the same society, a controversial study suggests

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Chimps have experimented with sex more than humans

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Chimps have experimented with sex more than humans

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First look into workings of the Neanderthal brain

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First look into workings of the Neanderthal brain

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A tall tale: How the sauropod got its neck

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A tall tale: How the sauropod got its neck

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Rules of evolution go a bit random if you're small

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Rules of evolution go a bit random if you're small

Opinion

Voice almighty: Decoding speech's secret signals

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Voice almighty: Decoding speech's secret signals

Features

Control sex for humanity's future

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Control sex for humanity's future

CultureLab

The strange ape that's rewriting our family tree

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The strange ape that's rewriting our family tree

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Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home

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Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home

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Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years

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Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years

Thousands of years before flowers were cultivated, humans were using them to line the graves of their peers

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Life

Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating

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Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

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Life

Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins

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The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving

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