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Evolution

 Great tit flies in a park in Minsk, Belarus February 6, 2020.

New study reveals birds convey politeness through wing gestures

 ‘Sodom and Gomorrah Afire’ by Jacob de Wet II, 1680

Sodom, Gomorrah, atomic bomb: Altruistic attempts to avert mass destruction

By ALBERT JACOB
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Prof. Israel Hershkovitz holds what scientists say are two pieces of fossilized bone of a previously unknown kind of early human discovered at the Nesher Ramla site.

Humans continue to experience evolution, natural selection is ongoing - Newsweek

 Artibeus jamaicensis, the Jamaican fruit bat

How bats evolved to avoid cancer - study

 An illustrative image of people's faces, one upside down and the other right side up.

Why are you better at recognizing upright faces?

 Ripe fruits from the cultivated tomato (top right) and its 13 species of wild relatives

Tomatoes: From the ancient wilds to the modern table

 Cretaceous carnivorous mammal Repenomamus robustus attacking the plant-eating dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis

How the extinction of larger animals drove humans to become smarter - study

 Life reconstruction of Tutcetus rayanensis: A scene depicting two extinct basilosaurid whales, with the foreground individual preying on a nautilid cephalopod and another swimming in the background

Ancient fossil sheds light on how whales made move to water

Slightly larger brains than modern humans, and stronger, but extinct. An illustration of the Neanderthal man.

Humanity once came dangerously close to extinction, study suggests

 A cell is seen undergoing mitosis, replicating its chromosomes as it divides (Illustrative).

How did the first stages of evolution start? - study

 An artistic illustration of a human skull.

Skull found in China points to an unknown human species

Why males have lower-pitched voices - study

 Life reconstruction of Brontosaurus excelsus, a type of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur (Illustrative).

Humans' ancestors, dogs, bats may have coexisted with dinosaurs – study

A JERUSALEM alley cat.

Ohio researchers use CAT scan to test felines’ sense of smell