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Gigantic Mammal ‘Cousin’ Discovered
The discovery of Lisowicia changes our ideas about the latest history of dicynodonts, and also raises more questions about what made them and dinosaurs so large. (read more)
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Humans Cause of Sixth Mass Extinction
If current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3–5 million years to recover. (read more)
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Snuggle or Die: Sociable Monkeys More Likely to Survive Winter
A new study is the first to show that social huddling may be a mechanism that connects social bonding to higher fitness. (read more)
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Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation
Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution (read more)
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Oi, Hairy! New Findings on the Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Transition
Study sheds light on Neanderthal-Homo sapiens transition (read more)
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Guess Which Parts of the Brain Were Used for Stone Age Tech
Changes in Early Stone Age tool production have ‘musical’ ties (read more)
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Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole
Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation (read more)
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No Walls in Nature: Range Expansion in the Animal World
Challenging traditional theories on organisms’ ‘range expansion’ (read more)
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Life: Crawling Along for 3.2 Billion Years.
Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought (read more)
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Black is the New Pink. Black Pigs, Better Bacon
New mutation found that suggests humans across the world have selected and bred black pigs (read more)
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Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls
There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing (read more)
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All about that Vertebral Wedging
Men prefer women who exhibit specific angles of spinal curvature over buttock mass (read more)
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Human language evolved from Birds
How human language could have evolved from birdsong (read more)
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Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?
By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks. (read more)
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Our Ancestors: Social Climbers or downright loafers?
Did humans really come down from the trees or did we have to come down from the trees to become human? (read more)