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The gentle disrupter’s research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human.

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Could a Less Complex Larynx Have Enabled Speech in Humans?

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To Mate or Not to Mate? Baboons’ Inbreeding Defense Is Biased

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African, Arabian Mammals Didn’t Escape Grande Coupure Extinction

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Leading Japanese Primate Research Center is Closing

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Cleaner Fish Alter Behavior if Partners Can See Them “Cheating”

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Alu Leap May Explain Why Apes Don’t Have Tails

US Confirms World’s First SARS-CoV-2 Cases in Gorillas

Unravelling Memory’s Mysteries: A Profile of Elizabeth Buffalo

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of?

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus.

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