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Zoologger: Angry lizard starts fights for no reason
Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world
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Humans
Why haven’t bald men gone extinct?
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Humans
Lucky you! Accidents of evolution that made us human
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Jaw dropper
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Brain gain
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Energy upgrade
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Gift of the gab
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Helping hand
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Switch to starch
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Health
Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?
Early in human evolution, our ancestors switched off two key genes. Doing so may have allowed us to fight off an epidemic of bacterial disease
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Life
Zoologger: Strange reptiles saw heads off seabirds
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Birds got smart by becoming big babes
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Life
Earliest member of giant panda line found in Spain
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Humans
The argumentative ape: Why we’re wired to persuade
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