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Thank the ur-worm for Shakespeare’s brain
The hallmark of the human brain – its enormous cortex – can be traced back 600 million years to the ancestor of a primitive worm
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Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy?
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Cost-cutting bacteria reap benefits of energy thrift
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Master gene-shuffler makes us all different
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Thank mothers for large ape brains
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How animals evolved personalities
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Success, not size 0, makes women want to eat less
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Humans
Tortoise banquet: Remains of the oldest feast found
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Life
Zoologger: Live birth, evolving before our eyes
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Infrared chlorophyll could boost solar cells
A new form of chlorophyll is the first to absorb infrared light, meaning it can be put to work in solar cells
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Early humans were butchers 3.4 million years ago
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Life
Ancient crocodile chewed like a mammal
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Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life’s history
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Reptilians were the earliest North American pioneers
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