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Being Alone, Less Social Increases Lifespan Of These Squirrels
facultative socialityoverwinter survivalRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryColoradoYosemite National ParkMarmota flaviventris
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Jan 18, 2018( International Business Times News: http://www.ibtimes.com Delivered by Newstex) Humans, since we evolved into the earliest Homo ancestors and maybe even before that, are social creatures, an attribute exploited ruthlessly by social networking platforms. And being social does us some go
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