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Humans

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

Average IQ may be falling, a trend some think is due to smarter people having fewer children. Now evidence suggests longer lifespans may be to blame instead

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A third of UK adults question evolution. Does that matter?

Life

A third of UK adults question evolution. Does that matter?

Comment

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

Humans

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

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illustration of Hongyu chowi

Life

Weird fish fossil changes the story of how we moved onto land

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Picture showing one of the footprints discovered on a Greek island

Humans

Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa

News

The silhouettes of two people sat talking over a table

Humans

It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

News

Biathletes

Humans

Male athletes with higher world rankings are better looking

News

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Features

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

Life

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

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A baby looking inquisitively to its left

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

Do you think of smaller numbers being on the left of larger ones? Even two-day-old babies may think this way, suggesting we’re born with mental number lines

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Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

Life

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

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Life

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

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Life

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

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