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Keyword - Behaviour

- 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
- Human behaviour: Killer instincts - Premium content
  
  What can evolution say about why humans kill - and about why we do so less than we used to? Dan Jones reports.
  
  30 January 2008
- The power of a single neuron - Premium content
  
  Stimulating one brain cell can be enough to change behaviour.
  
  19 December 2007
- The gene that makes us once bitten, twice shy - Premium content
  
  A single mutation helps to determine whether we repeat our mistakes.
  
  6 December 2007
- Behavioural Genetics: A question of survival - Premium content
  
  International collaboration and a can-do spirit have allowed some Russian scientists to flourish. Alison Abbott watches an extraordinary field test for mutant mice in the Russian wilderness.
  
  3 October 2007
- Bitterness illuminates plant lore - Premium content
  
  Use of herbal medicines may have arisen by accident.
  
  18 June 2004
- Girl chimps learn faster than boys - Premium content
  
  Daughters pick up their mother's skills, while sons play rough and tumble.
  
  15 April 2004