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Still a good boy. (susaro/E+/Getty Images) Dogs have far smaller brains than their wolf relatives, and now a study led by researchers in France has plotted a timeline for when this shrinking – ...

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Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

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The study analysed health data from over 6.5 million children between the ages of one and five across Brazil, collected ...

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