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human evolution

tamarin

Life

Monkeys can change their accent to communicate with another species

Red-handed tamarins change their calls to sound more like pied tamarins where the two species share the same patches of forest, and doing so may help the two species understand each other

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photographic memory

Life

Did you know? Fewer than 100 people have a photographic memory

Regulars

Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

Life

Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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What came first the chicken or the egg?

Question

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

alcohol

Definition

Alcohol

hominins

Humans

Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies

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cerebellum

Humans

Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution

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The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

Life

The platypus: What nature’s weirdest mammal says about our origins

Features

How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Humans

How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Features

chromosomes

Life

A species of yeast produces near-identical clones when it has sex

Saccharomycodes ludwigii is a sexually reproducing species, but it doesn’t mix up its genes before it mates – which means offspring end up being almost identical to the parents

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Life

Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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Life

Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs

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Life

Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don’t know how

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Question

Why do we yawn?

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