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human evolution

Capuchin monkeys rival chimps as highly skilled nut-crackers

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Capuchin monkeys rival chimps as highly skilled nut-crackers

Monkeys observed in Brazil can use tools, but they also know it doesn't take a sledgehammer to crack a nut – instead they exercise judgement and restraint

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Freakiest dinosaur ever found is a vegetarian relative of T. rex

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The human universe: Can we understand everything?

Humans

The human universe: Can we understand everything?

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This dinosaur had wings like a bat, but did it fly like one?

Life

This dinosaur had wings like a bat, but did it fly like one?

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Environment

She smells sea smells

Regulars

The first complex life on Earth got eaten to extinction

Life

The first complex life on Earth got eaten to extinction

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<i>The Vital Question</i>: Finding answers about the origin of life

Life

The Vital Question: Finding answers about the origin of life

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Dogs tap into human bonding system to get close to our hearts

Life

Dogs tap into human bonding system to get close to our hearts

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Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human

Life

Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human

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Women may have pioneered hunting with weapons

Life

Women may have pioneered hunting with weapons

Most chimps that use jabbing weapons to hunt prey are female, a pattern of behaviour that may also have been true of the first humans

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Life

Stag beetles' unwieldy jaws are surprisingly slick in flight

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Life

Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton

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Life

Did neurons evolve more than once on Earth?

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