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photographic memory

Life

Did you know? Fewer than 100 people have a photographic memory

True photographic memory is yet to be proved but some people have a very rare condition which allows them to recall past events in detail

Regulars

alcohol

Definition

Alcohol

hominins

Humans

Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies

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cerebellum

Humans

Brain's movement control centre may have had key role in our evolution

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How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Humans

How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Features

Why do we yawn?

Question

Why do we yawn?

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans

How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Culture

calcite crystals

Humans

People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

Humans

Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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hominin skull

Humans

Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

Our distant ancestors may have swung below tree branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee – challenging recent thinking that the earliest hominins did neither

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Humans

The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

Features

Humans

Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

Comment

Health

First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Humans

Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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