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Our ultra-mobile arm joints may have evolved for climbing down trees

Compared with monkeys, great apes have greater range of motion in their shoulders and elbows, which may help heavier primates climb down safely

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Life

Spotted salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbled by predators

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Humans

Our ancestors may have come close to extinction 900,000 years ago

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A mitochondrion

Life

Ocean bacteria may be closest relatives of mitochondria in our cells

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Llamas can learn by watching others

Life

Llamas solve problems faster after watching people do it

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Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

Life

Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

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Humans

Ape family tree suggests human ancestors weren’t particularly violent

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Mt. Fuji and Tokyo skyline

Humans

Utopia: The ancient discoveries that point to the ideal human society

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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Life

How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

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Life

Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do

Most modern plants grow leaves in a pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence, but a reconstruction of a 400-million-year-old plant reveals that its leaves grew much more chaotically

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Life

1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life

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Life

Male masturbation in primates evolved to cut chance of catching STIs

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Life

Comb jellies, not sponges, might be the oldest animal group after all

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Life

Butterflies evolved 100 million years ago in North America

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