Humans
What if … Intelligence is a dead end?
We're smug about our smarts – it separates us from the other animals and got us to our position of planetary dominance. But it could also be our downfall
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Life
Nature’s strangest families: Why animals adopt
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Earth
Megafauna extinction: DNA evidence pins blame on climate change
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Life
Four-legged fossil holds secret of snake’s slithering origins
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Life
Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently
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Humans
Strewth – Australian genetic link to founding of the Americas
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Earth
Fish flick genetic switch to dodge climate change disaster
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Environment
Archerfish up their game to outgun rivals stealing their catch
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Humans
Fussy eating may have doomed ape-like humans
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Environment
Zoologger: The sex-addicted tiny lemur with giant testicles
The northern giant mouse lemur has the biggest balls of the primate world, compared to body size, and seems to have sex all the time, doing without mating seasons
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Bonobos use a range of tools like stone-age humans
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Humans
How much of a caveman are you? FAQ
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Life
Lazy ants sit around doing nothing while their nest mates work
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Environment
The three ancestral tribes that founded Western civilisation
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