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First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

Dogs love a bone, but a taste for starchy farm waste may have helped domesticate their wolf-like ancestors at the dawn of the agricultural age

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Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

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Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

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3D print a fossil with virtual palaeontology

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3D print a fossil with virtual palaeontology

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Wolves bite back in the human world

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Bubbles of fat hint at origin of reproduction

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Bubbles of fat hint at origin of reproduction

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The hologenome: A new view of evolution

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The hologenome: A new view of evolution

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Pruney fingers give us better grip underwater

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Pruney fingers give us better grip underwater

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Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?

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Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?

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Human hands evolved so we could punch each other

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Human hands evolved so we could punch each other

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Dogs – great people pleasers, less good as chauffeurs

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Dogs – great people pleasers, less good as chauffeurs

Videos of dogs driving cars have become a global hit and prompted wild claims of canine intelligence. Not so fast, argues an animal cognition researcher

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2013 Smart Guide: Searching for human origins in Asia

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Zebrafish made to grow pre-hands instead of fins

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Captured: the moment photosynthesis changed the world

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A deliberate language barrier

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