Scientists induce endosymbiosis for first time in lab, a crucial step necessary for complex life
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How animals got butts
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Thirty-year species reintroduction experiment shows evolution unfolding in slow motion
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The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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When armor met lips
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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Vavilovian mimicry
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The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
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Long presumed to have no heads at all, sea stars may be nothing but
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Prehistoric fish fills 100 million year gap in evolution of the skull
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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
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New amphibian family tree a leap forward in understanding frogs, shows they evolved tens of millions of years later than previously thought
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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
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Dinosaurs evolved to breathe through bones more than once
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By selectively breeding forty generations of silver fox over the course of sixty years, researchers managed to make them as friendly as dogs
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Total recall: A brilliant memory helps chickadees survive
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Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
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One more reason to hate cockroaches
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“What If?” Eleven serious answers to slightly crazy science questions
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Expanding the brain. Literally.
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The curious case of Nebraska Man
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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The phylogenomics of evolving virus virulence
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What is the RNA world hypothesis?
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The longest-running evolution experiment
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Mimicry: When animals copy other animals
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How humans became the best throwers on the planet
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Why prehistoric humans needed no braces: Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale sign of an underlying epidemic
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'Bug fight club' clarifies evolution of natural weapons
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What are the seven (well, eight) realms of biogeography?
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Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
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Why do things keep evolving into crabs?
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Seven species which have evolved at hyperspeed, because of us
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins
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Impacts Project: Low-resolution PDF
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Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?
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How fungi made all life on land possible
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Unified theory of evolution
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
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Venoms vs. poisons
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Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie
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Scientists debate the origin of cell types in the first animals
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Ghost lineages
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves
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