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Keyword - behaviour

- Birds born to fear red - Premium content
  
  Colour intimidation in finches is innate, not learned.
  
  31 July 2009
- Experimental design could reduce need for animal tests - Premium content
  
  Accounting for environmental changes may be better than trying to control them.
  
  30 March 2009
- Classic behavioural studies flawed - Premium content
  
  Nobel prizewinner took short cuts to show that the way gulls feed is instinctive.
  
  24 March 2009
- Darwin 200: The other strand - Premium content
  
  Geneticists looked to the human genome to understand human evolution. But it's hard to interpret without considering the inheritance of culture, finds Erika Check Hayden.
  
  11 February 2009
- Darwin 200: Human nature: the remix - Premium content
  
  People's mindsets are neither fixed by evolution nor infinitely malleable by culture. Dan Jones looks for the similarities that underlie the diversity of human nature.
  
  11 February 2009
- Behavioural Science: Secret signals - Premium content
  
  Are people's interactions driven by a primitive, non-linguistic type of communication? Mark Buchanan looks at how modern technology can reveal the basis of our powers of persuasion.
  
  28 January 2009
- Video: Robot spiders reveal bee-haviour - Premium content
  
  Fake arachnids help researchers understand insect learning.
  
  4 September 2008
- Special report: Genetic testing for everyone - Premium content
  
  Private companies are starting to test customers' DNA for gene variants linked to an increased risk of conditions such as obesity or Alzheimer's disease. Helen Pearson looks at whether knowledge really is power when it comes to disease avoidance.
  
  28 May 2008
- Fear in the genes - Premium content
  
  Fear is partly down to your genes, but this process changes as you grow older.
  
  8 April 2008
- Brain changes linked to adolescent moods - Premium content
  
  Variation in the brain correlates with normal aggressive behaviour.
  
  25 February 2008