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• Petition for LEGO Charles Darwin & HMS Beagle

  

  Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the HMS Beagle was one of wonder and curiosity. These are some of ideas LEGO fosters. So why not pair the two? A reader recently... Read more

  The 12 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Chimps Have Morality, They Just Don’t Care About It

  

  A new study on captive apes has revealed that chimps have morality. Or at least, one key component of it: the ability to recognise when social norms are being... Read more

  The 08 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Fear Drives Technological Evolution

  

  Chimp archaeology is a legitimate thing. It studies "ancient" chimp technology. Chimp archaeologists in Africa have discovered that this ancient chimp technolog... Read more

  The 20 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Trillions of Artifacts Are REALLY a Problem for Creationists

  

  For more than 2 million years the pinnacle of human technology was stone tools. During this period - known as the stone age - trillions of artifacts were made b... Read more

  The 03 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Monkeys and Humans Make the Same Mistakes

  

  Monkeys are primates just like us; but most would argue that they don't have our intelligence. They are smart, with some species figuring out how to use tools t... Read more

  The 15 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Neanderthals Didn’t “evolve”

  

  Evolution describes how animals change over time. Often this is driven by natural selection - a process which results in animals becoming better adapted for... Read more

  The 18 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• How Often Do New Genes Evolve?

  

  Mutation is the bread and butter of evolution. It provides the "raw material" which allows adaptation to happen. Often, mutations are just changes to existing... Read more

  The 06 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Chimpanzees Are Hunting Their Prey to Extinction

  

  Chimps mostly eat fruits, leaves, and other wholesome vegetarian foods. However, they also hunt monkeys for ~2% of their diet. Sometimes - scarily enough -... Read more

  The 01 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Aboriginal Australians Result of Earlier Migration out of Africa

  

  Humans originally evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago. However, as you may have noticed we didn't stay there forever. It wasn't long before we had... Read more

  The 11 August 2015 by   Reprieve
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• Guest Post: On Proving Too Much in Scientific Data Analysis

  

  I asked Rick Gerkin to write a summary of his recent eLife paper commenting on a much hyped Science paper on how many odours we can discriminate. On Proving... Read more

  The 13 August 2015 by   Ccc1685
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