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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

The last Ebola epidemic was the worst ever. But it seems the virus quickly learns to spread more readily, which may make the next outbreak even harder to stop

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Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

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Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

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Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

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Disgust

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A bit of disgust can change how confident you feel

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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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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

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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

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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

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

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

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

The FOXP2 gene probably helped us evolve speech when we split from chimpanzees. But tinkering with the gene in mice affects their communication too

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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

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

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

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