Environment
Peter Pan ways make bonobos the most amiable of apes
The famously playful, generous and sexed-up apes hold onto their youthful ways far longer than chimpanzees, while some childish traits never vanish
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Life
I, virus: Why you’re only half human
Features
Health
We’re built to run barefoot, on our tip-toes
News
Environment
Bats and dolphins separately evolved same sonar gene
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Life
Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution
Features
Environment
Alligators’ bird breath may explain dinosaurs’ triumph
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Earth
Coral reefs are most fecund cradles of diversity
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Life
Oldest footprints of a four-legged vertebrate discovered
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Environment
Respect for elders ‘may be universal’ in primates
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Environment
Chimp’s dance suggests a mental grasp of fire
The chimp danced before a raging savannah fire, while others stayed calm a safe distance away, suggesting that the animals understood how fire behaves
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Humans
Ducks fight the battle of the sexes in their genitals
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Humans
Richard Wrangham: Cooking is what made us human
Opinion
Humans
2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother
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Environment
Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown
Features