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Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time  
‘Rocky' the ginger ape has astonished experts by producing sounds similar to words, a feat that might help us study the evolutionary origins of human speech  
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You are junk: Why it's not your genes that make you human  
Genes make proteins make us that was the received wisdom. But from big brains to opposable thumbs, some of our signature traits could come from elsewhere  
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