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Anthropology

Neandertal kids were a lot like kids today — at least in how they grew

Ancient youngster’s spine and brain grew at relatively slow pace.

Health & Medicine

From day one, a frog’s developing brain is calling the shots

Frog brains help organize muscle and nerve patterns early in development.

Environment

The way poison frogs keep from poisoning themselves is complicated

Gaining resistance to one of their own toxins forced some poison dart frogs to make other genetic tweaks, too.

Neuroscience

Gene variant linked to Alzheimer’s disease is a triple threat

A genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease works on multiple aspects of the disease, researchers report.