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evolution

Male white bellbird

Life

World's loudest male bird bellows at females sitting right next to it

The loudest song of the white bellbird hits an average of 116 decibels, putting it on a par with a pile-driver and beating all previously documented birds

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This toad acts like a snake to scare off predators

Life

Giant toad looks and acts like a venomous snake to scare off predators

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Impression of a Neanderthal

Humans

Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from Melanesia

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X-rays of human and chimp

Mind

Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development

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Lee Berger at 51¶¯Âþ Live

Humans

Lee Berger: We have made another major discovery about early humans

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Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

Life

Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

Features

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Humans

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Features

City simulations

Humans

We need to talk about technology that people use to influence others

Leader

Researchers have many theories about the function of female orgasm

Humans

Female orgasm may have evolved from a trigger for ovulation

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The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

Humans

The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

The New World wasn’t conquered by a single group of people - different populations migrated and interbred in a tangled web. This is the new normal for human evolution

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Humans

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

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Humans

The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

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Life

Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil

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Life

Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion

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