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1,437 results for: Primates

  1. Psychology

    ‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard

    Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.

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  2. Humans

    No nuts for you, Nutcracker Man

    Tooth analysis shows huge-jawed hominid grazed on grasses and sedges.

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  3. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1970s

    Genetic engineering, prescient reporting and other highlights, 1970–79

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  4. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Caterpillars brainwashed by virus, bacteria break DNA and more in this week’s news.

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  5. Life

    Help, elephants need somebody

    In pull-together tests, pachyderms are on par with chimps in understanding the basics of cooperation.

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  6. Humans

    Two feet or four, software is the same

    All walking animals use the same basic nerve patterns to put one leg in front of the other(s).

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  7. Tangled Roots

    Mingling among Stone Age peoples muddies humans’ evolutionary story.

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  8. Life

    Wasp has built-in Facebook

    An insect species with a tricky social life has a special facility for telling one bug's mug from another.

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  9. Life

    Genes & Cells

    How humans evolved shorter pregnancies, plus crayfish brains and restoring nerve insulation in this week’s news.

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  10. Animals

    Baboon bosses get stressed for success

    In the wild, the most powerful males reign tensely.

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  11. 2011 Science News of the Year: Life

    Multicellular life from a test tube In less than two months, yeast in a test tube evolved from single-celled life to bristly multicellular structures. The new, snowflakelike forms act like multicellular organisms, reproducing by splitting when they reach large sizes and evolving further in response to harsh conditions, William Ratcliff of the University of Minnesota, […]

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  12. Humans

    Human ancestors have identity crisis

    Fossils heralded as the remains of 4- to 7-million-year-old hominids might actually come from apes.

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