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Llamas can learn by watching others

Life

Llamas solve problems faster after watching people do it

Llamas are able to learn from other llamas and even more effectively from humans, possibly because thousands of years of domestication gave them the ability to read human social cues

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Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

Life

Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work

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Humans

Ape family tree suggests human ancestors weren’t particularly violent

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Mt. Fuji and Tokyo skyline

Humans

Utopia: The ancient discoveries that point to the ideal human society

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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Life

How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

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Life

Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do

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Life

1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life

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A group of Bonobos

Life

Male masturbation in primates evolved to cut chance of catching STIs

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Life

Comb jellies, not sponges, might be the oldest animal group after all

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Life

Butterflies evolved 100 million years ago in North America

Many researchers thought butterflies first evolved in Asia, but a global genetic analysis suggests they arose in North America, well before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct

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Health

Calorie boost may explain why adults evolved ability to digest milk

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Comment

The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

Culture

Life

Balto's genome reveals famed sledge dog was a mutt

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Life

Evolutionary oddball has seven genomes inside a single cell

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