Environment
Capuchin monkeys rival chimps as highly skilled nut-crackers
Monkeys observed in Brazil can use tools, but they also know it doesn't take a sledgehammer to crack a nut – instead they exercise judgement and restraint
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Humans
The human universe: Can we understand everything?
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Freakiest dinosaur ever found is a vegetarian relative of T. rex
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Life
This dinosaur had wings like a bat, but did it fly like one?
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Life
The first complex life on Earth got eaten to extinction
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Life
The Vital Question: Finding answers about the origin of life
Culture
Life
Dogs tap into human bonding system to get close to our hearts
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Humans
Eye of the beholder: How colour vision made us human
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Life
Stag beetles’ unwieldy jaws are surprisingly slick in flight
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Humans
Women may have pioneered hunting with weapons
Most chimps that use jabbing weapons to hunt prey are female, a pattern of behaviour that may also have been true of the first humans
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Environment
Baboon bone found in famous Lucy skeleton
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Life
Did neurons evolve more than once on Earth?
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Humans
I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality
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