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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

Humans

Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

If we know the idea of difference based purely on race is wrong, why do we still hang on to the idea of race in science, asks science writer Angela Saini.

Regulars

A young juvenile male bonobo is groomed by his mom in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve.

Life

Bonobo mothers stand guard and chase off rivals while their sons mate

News

Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

Life

Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

News

Olivia Rossanese outside the unfinshed Cancer Drug Discovery Centre

Health

Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery to focus on anti-evolution treatments

News

Fossil teeth could change our understanding of human evolution

Humans

Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

News

Stylephorus chordatus is one of several species with extra eye pigment genes

Life

Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision

News

The red-billed leiothrix is a non-native species in Hawaii

Life

Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades

News

Hell's Gate in New Zealand is being used as an open-air laboratory

Life

Scientists dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

News

Atlantic killifish

Life

Pollution-proof fish borrow genes from relatives to survive toxins

News

speech artwork

Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

Two million years ago, our ancestors started singing to ward off predators putting humanity on a path that led to the evolution of language

Features

Humans

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Culture

Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

Features

Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

News

Health

Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

News

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