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Genetics studies are too white – that’s failing people and science
Three-quarters of people in studies linking genetics and health are of white European descent, leading us to miss vital clues, says researcher Scott Williams
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Mind
Our brains might sense Earth’s magnetic field just like birds do
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Humans
Humans couldn’t pronounce ‘f’ and ‘v’ sounds before farming developed
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Health
Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered
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Humans
Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge
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Life
How nature is evolving in the human age
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Life
Chasing the Sun review: Light’s power over life charted
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Environment
The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought
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2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons
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Earth
Anthropocene review – tough film makes case for human-created epoch
From Kenyan children picking through plastic waste to swathes of Germany laid waste for coal mining, a film shows why we are in a new, human-created epoch
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Humans
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry
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Humans
World’s first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo
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Humans
Martin Rees: The posthuman future
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Humans
Idly tapping your fingers can make you think time has slowed down
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