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Why we're funny about facts and prefer emotions

From Brexit and vaccines to climate change and GM foods, why do humans find expert advice so hard to take? Two new books have a lot of suggestions

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Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls

Life

Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls

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A crow stands on a branch holding a twig in its beak

Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

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Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

Life

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

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Life

You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human

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Neanderthal and human skulls side by side

Humans

Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours

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People at sunset

Life

Mystery ancient human ancestor found in Australasian family tree

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Rock chimneys spew what looks like smoke although this is actually on the seabed

Life

Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive

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Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

Life

Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

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An aye-aye stares at the camera from a perching spot in a tree

Life

Boozy primates seek out nectar with the highest alcohol content

Aye-ayes and a slow loris preferred artificial nectar with more booze in lab tests, suggesting that tippling is an ancient strategy for primates

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Life

Well-travelled chimps more likely to pick up tools and innovate

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Humans

Are humans still evolving? Growing evidence suggests we are

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Life

Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

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Life

T. rex lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose

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