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How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

Mind

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

Even the most intelligent people can make ridiculous mistakes – but there are simple things all of us can do to act more wisely and avoid blinkered thinking

Features

African landscape

Earth

How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

News

Neanderthals artwork

Humans

Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

Features

Little foot

Environment

Hominin v monkey deathmatch ended in a draw when they fell down a hole

News

wildfire

Life

The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018

News

Denisovan tooth

Humans

2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our species’ deep evolutionary past

News

turtle

Life

Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2018’s science stories

Regulars

Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

Humans

Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

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Humans

Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human

News

Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

Video

Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

Molecular biologist Helen O’Neill reveals why precision genetic engineering is the most exciting thing since spliced DNA

Video

Humans

Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers

News

Life

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

News

Life

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Humans

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

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