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Phylogeny: Rewriting Evolution
Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree.
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Human Ancestor Ate Bark Like a Chimp
Bits of food stuck between the teeth of a two-million-year-old South African hominid show that, unlike almost all other...
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Complex Thinking Goes Beyond Primates
It’s not just man’s closer primate relatives that exhibit brain power. Dolphins, dogs and elephants are teaching us a...
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Inner Ears Reveal Speed of Early Primates
It’s 20 million years ago in the forests of Argentina, and Homunculus patagonicus is on the move. The monkey...
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What the Amazon Looked Like Before Columbus
Ancient people had minimal, if any, impact on the outlying forests of South America’s Amazon Basin, and settlements near...
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First Painters May Have Been Neanderthal, Not Human
European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than Homo sapiens were the...
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Unraveling the Bonobo’s Genome, and its Secrets
Ulindi, a female bonobo at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany, has had her genome sequenced, researchers reported, making bonobos...
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Animated Stone Age Art
Welcome to Animation Domination, Stone Age style. By about 30,000 years ago, Europeans were using cartoon-like techniques to give...
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Why Humans Prevailed Over Neanderthals
One hundred thousand years ago, several humanlike species walked the Earth. There were tribes of stocky Neanderthals eking out...
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Fossil Discovery Sheds New Light on Evolution of Higher Primates
A team of researchers has announced the discovery of Afrasia djijidae, a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates...