Humans
Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?
Understand how the Bengalese finch acquired its virtuoso singing, and you can learn a lot about the forces that freed our own tongues, says Kate Douglas
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Humanity’s forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA
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Environment
Threatwatch: Mother virus of China’s deadly bird flu
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Humans
Neanderthal-human sex bred light skins and infertility
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Environment
3D fossil portrait could be the mother of all spiders
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Ancient European hunter-gatherer was a blue-eyed boy
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Canine GPS vests reveal dog social network
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Life
What separates us from other animals?
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Health
Giant leaps of evolution make cancer cells deadly
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Long-lost lake may have helped humans out of Africa
A 45,000-square-kilometre lake, which has long since dried up, was at the right place at the right time for key migrations in the history of our species
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Earth
Long-lost lake may have helped humans out of Africa
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Environment
Insect minions banned from breeding by same signal
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Earth
Volcanic mayhem drove major burst of evolution
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Earth
Real King Kong may have been brought down by fruit
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