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Netted Costa Rican birds pay small price for art
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The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple
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Your molar roots are leftovers from Homo erectus
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Lingering kiss: DNA persists in the mouth after smooch
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To spot a fit partridge, check its fractal necklace
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First farmers’ trash put wolves in the doghouse
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Body armour to scale up by mimicking flexible fish
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Scarred for life? The biology of childhood hardship
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David Attenborough: Animals are a source of infinite fascination
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Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story
Many of our genes have no obvious relatives or evolutionary history. So where did they come from?
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Why trees can’t grow taller than 100 metres
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Straitjacket drug halts herpes virus’s escape stunt
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Wolves bite back in the human world
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Why we called off hunt for ancient Antarctic life
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