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<i>Mixed Messages</i>: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

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Mixed Messages: Are our genes and culture at cross purposes?

Why privilege genes over culture when people like South America's Mbaya, who eschew sex and pass on their culture through adoption, seem to argue the opposite?

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Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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Case of the Rickety Cossack reveals unease about our fossil past

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<i>Men (Dis)connected</i>: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

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Men (Dis)connected: Philip Zimbardo's lament on the male

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I've won a day in court for two chimps

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I've won a day in court for two chimps

Opinion

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

Technology

Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

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Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

Technology

Blame the enlightened self for the distractions in our lives

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Zoologger: The mammal with the stretchiest nerves on the planet

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Zoologger: The mammal with the stretchiest nerves on the planet

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Womb milk nourishes human embryo during first weeks of pregnancy

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Womb milk nourishes human embryo during first weeks of pregnancy

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Could these giant dinosaurs have lifted up their pictured prey?

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Could these giant dinosaurs have lifted up their pictured prey?

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Capuchin monkeys rival chimps as highly skilled nut-crackers

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Capuchin monkeys rival chimps as highly skilled nut-crackers

Monkeys observed in Brazil can use tools, but they also know it doesn't take a sledgehammer to crack a nut – instead they exercise judgement and restraint

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Combs made of hair probe our changing idea of luxury

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Scientific Babel: Why English rules

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Life

The Least Likely Man celebrates a genetic-code-breaking genius

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Earth

UK's political parties offer little on climate and renewables

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