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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

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Puzzle-solving great apes: The shared abilities underpinning language

The evolutionary origins of speech may be glimpsed in the tool-using abilities of great apes.

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How Stella Learned to Talk review: Can a dog really talk?

How Stella Learned to Talk review: Can a dog really talk?

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Don't Miss: Asteroids is a cracking book about our future in space

Don't Miss: Asteroids is a cracking book about our future in space

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers is joyful sci-fi reading

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers is joyful sci-fi reading

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Katherine Johnson memoir: Her incredible life as a NASA mathematician

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Katherine Johnson memoir: Her incredible life as a NASA mathematician

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Insight into early embryos could explain why some pregnancies fail

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Insight into early embryos could explain why some pregnancies fail

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Quantum Life review: One man's journey from the streets to the stars

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Quantum Life review: One man's journey from the streets to the stars

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We Are Satellites review: What brain implants could do to family life

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We Are Satellites review: What brain implants could do to family life

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Should we start testing drugs and vaccines in people who are pregnant?

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Should we start testing drugs and vaccines in people who are pregnant?

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Drunk review: Could alcohol-induced creativity be key to civilisation?

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Drunk review: Could alcohol-induced creativity be key to civilisation?

Could social drinking have created our civilisation by fuelling creativity and innovation? Drunk, an engrossing new book by Edward Slingerland, roams far and wide to make the case

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How courts and investors are forcing big oil companies to clean up

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Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art

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Shards of Earth review: A rip-roaring space opera with a psychic twist

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