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Food sharing promotes social bonding in chimpanzees, leading them to form cooperative relationships, a new study has found.
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The truth behind the unique sex-determination system in honeybees - where males develop from unfertilised eggs and females develop from fertilised eggs - is out.
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Scientists have discovered a previously unknown human relative, with whom ancient man must have had sex with.
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The popular belief that time seems to slow down or even stop when falling in love at first sight may actually be true, a new research suggests.
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Evolutionary biologists have shown that the proverb: like mother, like daughter; like father, like son, also applies to inheriting a long life at least for fruit flies.
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A nearly complete skeleton that belongs to the oldest ancestor of "the most evolutionarily successful and long-lived mammal lineage" on Earth has been unearthed in China
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We owe our swimming style to our evolutionary past, as just like apes we have a tendency to swim using a form of breaststroke, a new study has revealed.
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A new genetic analysis of hundreds of American dog breeds has found that the native canines` ancient roots trace back to Asia.
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A research team has found that the stage for the evolution of modern hormonal signalling was set by just 2 mutations about 500 million years ago.
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The first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard around the globe has been created by scientists.
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Animal pharmacists! The practice of self-medication in animal is lot more widespread than previously thought, according to new research.
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DNA analysis has found that ancient humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans.
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