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1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1729+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article Lerch, B. A. & Servedio, M. R. Same-sex sexual behaviour and selection for indiscriminate mating. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 5, 135141 (2021). G'mez, J. M., Gonz'lez-Meg'as, A. & Verd, M. The evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals. Nat. Commun. 14, 5719 (2023). Bailey, N. W. & Zuk, M. Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution. Trends…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1731+ words) Nature (2026)Cite this article Thomas Quarry I (ThI), located in the southwest part of the city of Casablanca, Morocco (Fig. 1a), represents a key archaeological locality in northwest Africa. ThI is excavated in the Oulad Hamida Formation (OHF)9,10 and comprises two…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (230+ words) It's hard to pinpoint the genetic basis for peculiarly human cultural and behavioural traits. Credit: Getty What made humans behave differently to their closest relatives? Researchers have long sought an answer in a handful of genetic differences between Homo sapiens…...

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1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (252+ words) Anne Marie Conlon is Nature's chief digital editor. Download the Nature Podcast 10 December 2025 Research Article: Davis et al. News and Views: Oldest known evidence of the controlled ignition of fire Machine-learning algorithms can help to identify traces of life in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1545+ words) The central incisors of BRT-VP-2/135 are emerging and close to the level of the occlusal plane, whereas the lateral incisors are only slightly beyond alveolar emergence. The incisor crowns are absolutely larger than those of A. ramidus (n=4)18,30 but fall within…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1728+ words) Grave locations and reconstructed pedigree at the Zhaishan site. The connections inferred from trustworthy IBD sharing are marked in pink, representing sample pairs with either coverage above 1" for both samples. The IBD edges bar was added based on the maximum…...

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1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (372+ words) Yu Dong is at the Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China. Ripan S. Malhi is in the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana'Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. In 2012, archaeologists started excavating a site called Shimao, located in…...