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Roaches have evolved to evade toxic traps
In the race for world domination, cockroaches have scored another point against Homo sapiens. Their weapons? A distaste for sugar and a helping hand from evolution
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Humans
Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster
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Why penguins dumped flight for flippers
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Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids
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Earth
Did tectonic rift push apes and monkeys apart?
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Early hominins couldn’t have heard modern speech
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Humans
Out of Asia: Our surprising origins
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First land animals kept their fish faces
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Zoologger: The moth with the highest-pitched hearing
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Humans
European and Asian languages have one mother tongue
Most of the modern languages in Eurasia can be traced back to a single mother tongue that existed around the time of the last ice age
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Technology
AI card game knows how to bend the rules
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Painted turtles set to become all-female
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Humans
Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd
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Mild-mannered flies turn cannibal when short of food
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