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Environment

We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

Many scientists think that our big brains evolved to help us cope with the complexities of social living, but a model suggests it was more to do with finding food and lighting fires

News

Humans

World’s most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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A scan of a brain

Health

A high IQ may protect men from a cause of psychological stress

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Children at school

Humans

Does your kids’ DNA matter more than which school they go to?

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brain pills

Health

The Genius Within: How to be smart in the 21st century

Culture
A person's brain and DNA

Humans

Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence

News

Humans

How 91av readers predicted the Oscar winners

Features

Humans

Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Features
crowd of people

Humans

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

Features
An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

CRISPR gene editing has been used to alleviate the genetic disorder fragile X syndrome, but the technique has only been tried in cells in a dish so far

News

Humans

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

Features

Humans

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

News

Humans

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

Features

Humans

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

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