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For honeybees, there’s no place like home. And every year, they must find a new one. Now, a study publishing today (December 8) in Science suggests that the honeybee swarms use inhibitory signals when house-hunting, paralleling the human brain’s deci
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Gene expression controlled from afar may have spurred the spurt in brain evolution that led to modern humans.
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