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Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

Want to know if a dictator will be deposed? Or shares will crash? Intelligence agencies and firms are realising groups of everyday people can foresee what will happen

Features

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Humans

The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

Features

An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

News

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

Humans

Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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

Humans

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

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Trump supporters

Humans

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

Features

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

Technology

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

News

Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

News

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Humans

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

Features

Humans

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

Features

Humans

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

News

Life

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

Features

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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