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Don’t Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds

This week, listen to a founder of Out-of-Africa theory, read about our deadliest enemy, the mosquito, and explore the future of human and robot minds

Chris Stringer

Listen

Chris Stringer’s research is one big reason why we think humans originated in Africa. Times‘s science editor Clive Cookson at The Royal Institution in London on 5 August at 7 pm BST.

Read

history of our deadliest predator by Timothy C. Winegard (Dutton) reveals how a small and insubstantial insect triggered the rise and fall of empires, and killed nearly half of humanity in the process.

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Last chance

at the House of Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland, is a group exhibition exploring the social and personal challenges of artificial intelligence. Can human and robot minds coexist? If so, at what cost? Ends 11 August.

Topics: Artificial intelligence / Exhibition / human evolution / Insects