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Are humans cruel to be kind?

Life

Are humans cruel to be kind?

Why are people so mean to others for no apparent reason? Perhaps it's because a little spite helps make society fairer

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Earliest animal traces solve time-gap mystery

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Life

Quantum arguments for God veer into mumbo-jumbo

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Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island human

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Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island human

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Life

Dancing parrots could help explain evolution of rhythm

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Quack remedies spread by virtue of being useless

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Quack remedies spread by virtue of being useless

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Life

Huge gene study shines new light on African history

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Sponge larvae: Your unlikely ancestors

Life

Sponge larvae: Your unlikely ancestors

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Early domestic animals were surprisingly well bred

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Early domestic animals were surprisingly well bred

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Did asbestos help life evolve?

Earth

Did asbestos help life evolve?

Bacteria swap genes in the presence of an asbestos mineral and a good shake from an earthquake, suggesting that such conditions in early Earth aided evolution

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Life

Scholars at odds over mysterious Indus script

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Ancestors may have used bone tools to make smoothies

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Life

Ape behaviour reveals secrets of human evolution

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Life

Fossil seal had the feet of an otter

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