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  1. Talk to the Hand: Language might have evolved from gestures

    Language might have evolved from hand gestures, say researchers who study communication in chimpanzees.

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  2. Animals

    Monkey Business: Specimen of new species shakes up family tree

    The new monkey species found in Tanzania last year may be unusual enough to need a new genus, the first one created for monkeys in nearly 80 years.

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  3. Natural-Born Addicts: Brain differences may herald drug addiction

    Differences in the behavior and the brain receptors of rats seem to predict which of the rodents will become cocaine addicted.

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  4. Primate’s Progress: Macaque genome is usefully different

    A group of 35 labs has unveiled a draft of the genome of the rhesus macaque, the most widely used laboratory primate and a cousin to people.

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  5. Stem Cells from Virgin Eggs

    Making embryonic stem cells from unfertilized eggs might bypass many ethical concerns, but important scientific hurdles remain.

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  6. Grown-Up Connections: Mice, monkeys remake brain links as adults

    Two new studies offer a glimpse of extensive remodeling of nerve connections in the brain's outer layer, or cortex, during adulthood in mice and monkeys.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Defending against a Deadly Foe: Vaccine forestalls fearsome virus

    A single injection of an experimental vaccine prevents infection by the lethal Marburg virus in monkeys.

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  8. Brain Gain

    The brain constantly sprouts new neurons, a recently discovered phenomenon that neuroscientists and drugmakers are working to understand and harness.

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  9. Babies Prune Their Focus: Perception narrows toward infancy’s end

    Between the ages of 6 months and 8 months, infants lose the ability to match the vocalizations and facial movements of monkeys shown in video clips, signaling a temporary perceptual narrowing as babies focus on the human social realm.

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  10. Not so Silent: Mutation alters protein but not its components

    A single swap in the letters of a gene's sequence could modify the protein it encodes, even if it doesn't change which amino acids make up the molecule.

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  11. Anthropology

    Red-Ape Stroll

    Wild orangutans regularly walk upright through the trees, raising the controversial possibility that the two-legged stance is not unique to hominids.

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  12. Animals

    Ebola Die-Off: Gorilla losses tallied in central Africa

    Between 2001 and 2005, Ebola virus killed at least 5,500 lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo.

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