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evolution

Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication

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Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication

Herds of gelada monkeys in Ethiopia are unfazed by wolves wandering through to hunt rodents, but is one domesticating the other just as humans did with dogs?

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Handstands and cartwheels turn dwarf mongooses into tough guys

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Handstands and cartwheels turn dwarf mongooses into tough guys

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Island of wild children: Would they learn to be human?

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Island of wild children: Would they learn to be human?

Features

Chimps with magic stove show evolutionary capacity for cooking

Life

Chimps with magic stove show evolutionary capacity for cooking

Opinion

Sawfish is first vertebrate known to clone itself in the wild

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Sawfish is first vertebrate known to clone itself in the wild

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Gene study shows humans took Egyptian path out of Africa

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Gene study shows humans took Egyptian path out of Africa

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CSI Stone Age: was 430,000-year-old hominin murdered?

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CSI Stone Age: was 430,000-year-old hominin murdered?

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The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

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The whole hog: Unpacking our love-hate relationship with the pig

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New species of early human was Lucy's neighbour in Africa

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New species of early human was Lucy's neighbour in Africa

Fossils of a new species of Australopithecus have been found near the site of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, suggesting the two species interacted

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Life

Ancient DNA suggests dogs split from wolves 40,000 years ago

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Life

Oldest broken bone reveals our ancestors' switch to life on land

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Life

Cuckoos against the clock: Charming cheats in mystery decline

Opinion

Health

Bigger brains help female fish outwit predators and live longer

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