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  1. Animals

    DNA trail leads to new spot for dog domestication

    A new study suggests that dogs were first domesticated in Central Asia.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Signs of Huntington’s show up in the brain in childhood

    Hints of Huntington’s disease show up in the brain long before symptoms do.

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  3. Paleontology

    New evidence weakens case against climate in woolly mammoths’ death

    Hunters responsible for woolly mammoths’ extinction, suggests a chemical analysis of juveniles’ tusks.

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  4. Paleontology

    Dimetrodon’s diet redetermined

    The reptilelike Dimetrodon dined mainly on amphibians and sharks, not big herbivores as scientists once believed.

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  5. Anthropology

    Sleep time in hunter-gatherer groups on low end of scale

    Hunter-gatherer communities in Africa and South America have similar sleeping patterns as people living in postindustrial societies, researchers find.