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Mind

Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development

Using stem cells to grow mini brains in a dish has let us compare the way brains develop in humans, chimpanzees and monkeys, and spot the differences

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Humans

Lee Berger: We have made another major discovery about early humans

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Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

Life

Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals

Features

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Humans

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

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City simulations

Humans

We need to talk about technology that people use to influence others

Leader

Researchers have many theories about the function of female orgasm

Humans

Female orgasm may have evolved from a trigger for ovulation

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The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

Humans

The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

Leader

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Humans

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Features

The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

Humans

The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

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Baby apes

Life

Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil

We thought that walking on all fours like a gorilla is more primitive than walking on two legs as humans do. But new fossils suggest even very ancient apes walked upright

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Life

Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion

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Humans

We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees

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Humans

Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years

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Humans

We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors

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