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Humans are often referred to as “hairless apes.” But how did this trait evolve given that fur provides significant advantages to many mammals?

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New Evidence Complicates the Story of the Peopling of the Americas

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Infographic: Mixed Evidence on Human Occupation of the Americas

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Book Excerpt from Between Ape and Human

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Opinion: Another Species of Hominin May Still Be Alive

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Caught on Camera

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Students Protest Amidst Harvard Sexual Harassment Scandal

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Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey Dies at Age 77

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2,000-Year-Old Salmon DNA Reveals Secret to Sustainable Fisheries

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Maurice Taieb, Geologist Who Discovered “Lucy” Site, Dies at 86

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Universe 25 Experiment

A woman in her 60s wears a yellow tank top and brown-rimmed glasses while placing a hormone-replacement patch on her upper arm.

Flawed Studies Linked Menopausal Hormone Therapy to Breast Cancer

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The Origin of Anesthesia: Feuding Scientists, War, and Dart Poison

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Publisher Investigates an Alleged Peer Review Extortion Attempt

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Mapping Tissues with Spatial Biology

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Expanding What Super-Resolution Microscopy Can Capture

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors photobombed his underwater images.

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Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Liver Cancer

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Optimizing NGS Library Preparation for Reliable Sequencing Data

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