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A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

The first analyses of skull data from the most recently discovered species of early human suggest that its brain was surprising sophisticated

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Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

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Person cutting notches into bone with close-up of notched Neanderthal version on the left

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Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

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Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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action during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between England and Algeria

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Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

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Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Cooking makes food more digestible and kills off bacteria, and every human society in the world does it. But where and when it started is hotly debated

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

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