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leaf-like rangeomorphs

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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

The Cambrian explosion is feted as the moment where complex animals burst onto the scene, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth

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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Makgadikgadi salt pan

Humans

Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It's complicated

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Male white bellbird

Life

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

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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

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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

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

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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

We can sniff out fear, find solace in the smell of a loved one, breathe in the scent of happiness. How we're deciphering the subliminal signals of human scent

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

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Female orgasm may have evolved from a trigger for ovulation

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Humans

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

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Humans

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

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