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human evolution

Time to rethink what makes humans special

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Time to rethink what makes humans special

How does language add meaning? Has culture shaped our genes? Two books, The Secret of Our Success and The Crucible of Language, show old ideas fading away

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How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle

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How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle

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Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish

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Why one lake contains more than 1000 species of the same fish

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Stone Age Picasso made oldest known drawing of human settlement

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Stone Age Picasso made oldest known drawing of human settlement

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Pairs of habitable worlds could throw microbes at each other

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Sword and dagger arachnid fights may explain weapon evolution

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Sword and dagger arachnid fights may explain weapon evolution

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Whales make mysterious visits to underwater mountains

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Whales make mysterious visits to underwater mountains

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Two whales killed by sole fish stuck in their blowholes

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Two whales killed by sole fish stuck in their blowholes

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Capuchin monkeys use sticks as shovels to dig out caiman eggs

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Capuchin monkeys use sticks as shovels to dig out caiman eggs

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African finch sings and performs superfast Happy Feet tap dance

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African finch sings and performs superfast Happy Feet tap dance

A strange buzzing sound made during the singing mating ritual of an African finch is in fact a tap dance so fast it is invisible to the human eye

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Kids' sense of fairness depends on country they were born in

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Ruff bird orgies have four 'sexes' thanks to a supergene flip

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Why insects are the real rulers of the world

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Most of Earth's mass extinctions caused by… mineral deficiencies

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