Health
The subtle side of sex
Without knowing it, we go to extraordinary lengths to influence the outcome of sexual intercourse - or so say biologists studying the reproductive value of male masturbation and the female orgasm
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Life
Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee
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Humans
Science: On the origins of the midwife
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Humans
Review: The role of technology in evolution
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Humans
Science: Early humans were forest dwellers
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Humans
Breaking Chomsky’s rules
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Humans
On the origin of races
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Humans
The great brain race
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Humans
Why gossip is good for you
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Humans
A tale of two heads
What do our heads and brains have in common with the anatomy of a fruit fly? The answer lies in mysterious bumps that appear in the developing nervous systems of human embryos
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Humans
How the wild beasts were tamed
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Life
A fitter theory of evolution?
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Life
A very cultured chimpanzee
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Life
The sponges that spanned Europe
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