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  Human Origins: Our Crazy Family Tree

  What do nutcracker man, the hobbit and others tell us about humanity?

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  Horror Movies: Why People Love Them

  If horror movies scare us so much, why do we watch them?

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  Top 10 Smartest Mammals*

  Elephants have much heavier brains than we humans, but when it comes to a neuron count, we tie with the pachyderms.

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  The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals

  Scientists are still trying to figure out why we succeeded while our closest human relatives didn't.

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  What's Crawling on Your Skin

  The human body home to countless microorganisms of various species.

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  Human Evolution: Our Closest Living Relatives, the Chimps

  Chimpanzees offer many clues as to how we evolved our human traits.

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  Human Evolution: Where We Came From

  A chronology of hominids tells the story of some of the most significant ancestors we know about and how they're all linked by evolution.

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  POLL: Your View of Human Evolution

  The theory is based on solid evidence from several fields and different lines of research, but it remains highly controversial.

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  Top 10 Things that Make Humans Special

  What separates humans from other animals? Some of the answers might surprise you.

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  Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans

  Humans are unique among life on this planet, and much remains a mystery as to how we evolved.

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  Disgraced Cloning Scientist Convicted

  Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed to have cloned human embryos, was convicted in South Korea.

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  Modern Men Are Wimps

  Inactivity has led to a decline in physical abilities, author claims.

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  Our Ancestor: Not Chimp, Not Human

  Earliest hominid remains shed light on human origins.

• Spiritual Women Have More Sex

  New research has found that spirituality has a greater effect on the sex lives of young adults.

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  Moon Myths: The Truth About Lunar Effects on You

  The moon holds a mystical place in the history of human culture, so it's no wonder that many myths exist.

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  Can Robots Make Ethical Decisions?

  Morality is no longer the exclusive realm of human philosophers. Now what?

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  Therapy Fixes Color Blindness in Monkeys

  Gene therapy has given two color-blind monkeys the ability to see red.

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  Robot to Get Human Brain Cells

  It's all cooked up in a broth of nutrients zapped by electricity.

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  Wolves Beat Dogs on Logic Test

  Wolves do better on some logic tests than dogs, a new study found.

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  POLL: Are Humans Causing Global Warming?

  What do you think of the latest evidence?

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  Human Lifespans Nearly Constant for 2,000 Years

  Maximum human lifespan, often confused with life expectancy, has remained more or less the same.