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You May Have Been Born to Flock
More than 70,000 people will flood into the Superdome in New Orleans this weekend, while thousands more swarm through...
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DNA Shows Ancient Humans Related to Asians and Native Americans
Researchers have been able to trace a line between some of the earliest modern humans to settle in China...
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Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back From the Dead?
In a SPIEGEL interview, synthetic biology expert George Church of Harvard University explains how DNA will become the building...
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Ancient Migration: Genes Link Australia With India
Australia experienced a wave of migration from India about 4,000 years ago, a genetic study suggests. It was thought...
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DNA Reveals Eye, Hair Color From Ancient Human Remains
A new way of determining hair and eye from modern forensic samples can also be used to identify details...
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Did Lucy Walk, Climb, or Both?
Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism...
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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
At Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now...
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Tool-Using Orangutans Learn Like Humans
Even when they are very young, orangutans may start to form ideas about their world — specifically, how and...
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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it...
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Primate Species: New Slow Loris Found in Borneo
A new species of small nocturnal primate has been discovered by scientists in Borneo. The primate is a type of...