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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

Present You regards Future You as someone else entirely. See past this mental blind spot, and Future You will be healthier, wealthier and wiser for it

Features

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Humans

Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

Features

Person cutting notches into bone with close-up of notched Neanderthal version on the left

Humans

Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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Life

Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

Features

Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

Humans

Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

News

action during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between England and Algeria

Health

Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

News

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Humans

Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory

Features

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Humans

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Features

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Humans

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Features

Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

Human intelligence is set to be the world’s biggest ever industry, says entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, whose company aims to enhance it with a brain prosthesis

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Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

News

Health

Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

Features

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Comment

Health

Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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