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Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster

The barium levels in a Neanderthal child's molar indicate its mother stopped breastfeeding at 14 months – more than a year earlier than modern humans

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Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

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Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

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Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids

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Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids

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Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart?

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Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart?

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Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech

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Early hominins couldn't have heard modern speech

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First land animals kept their fish faces

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Out of Asia: Our surprising origins

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Out of Asia: Our surprising origins

Features

Zoologger: The moth with the highest-pitched hearing

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Zoologger: The moth with the highest-pitched hearing

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European and Asian languages have one mother tongue

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European and Asian languages have one mother tongue

Most of the modern languages in Eurasia can be traced back to a single mother tongue that existed around the time of the last ice age

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Technology

AI card game knows how to bend the rules

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Painted turtles set to become all-female

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Technology

Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd

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Mild-mannered flies turn cannibal when short of food

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