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human evolution

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Humans are not the only great apes to have had an ancient fling with related species. New evidence shows that chimps carry genes from bonobos

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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A woman bent over studying something under a microscope on the floor of a cave

Humans

Our Ice Age ancestors skinned cave lions to make roofs for huts

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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

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Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

Mystery beast in ice age cave art revealed as cow-bison hybrid

Life

Mystery beast in ice age cave art revealed as cow-bison hybrid

What was long thought to be a change in cave art style was in fact the natural evolution of a hybrid species – the elusive ancestor of modern European bison

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Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

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Life

Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories

Features

Life

First birds made honking sounds more than 66 million years ago

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Life

Snake fools attackers by changing its eyes to look like a viper

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