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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

A cache of stone tools found in south India reveals that the hominins living there over 170,000 years ago already had advanced tool-making skills

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Technician injects fluid into MinION DNA sequencer

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Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome

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Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

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Dali skull

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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CRISPR gene editing

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We’ve evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Old Scientist: Tanks on the moon and other wolves we’ve cried

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How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

We might seem less hirsute than other beasts, but we’re not, and this extract from 91av’s book How to be Human reveals why our locks are so strange

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DNA testing firms are cashing in our genes. Should we get a cut?

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Humans

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

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Humans

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

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