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We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

Average IQ may be falling, a trend some think is due to smarter people having fewer children. Now evidence suggests longer lifespans may be to blame instead

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

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A baby looking inquisitively to its left

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Ancient human skulls

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We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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classroom scene

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People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Children playing on a bouncy castle

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DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

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A classroom in Uttar Pradesh

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Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Humans

Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found

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Models of the skulls of human ancestors

Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

Confused by the flood of news about ancient humans? Here’s the low-down on what new discoveries are revealing about the complicated story of our ancestors

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Life

Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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