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Our blender brain: How mixing ideas made us human

Life

Our blender brain: How mixing ideas made us human

About 50,000 years ago we started to mash up incompatible concepts – and everything from science to fashion is the result, says cognitive scientist Mark Turner

Opinion

First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen

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First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen

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The reptile labour that lasted 248 million years

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The reptile labour that lasted 248 million years

Regulars

Britain's earliest humanity in epic exhibition

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Britain's earliest humanity in epic exhibition

CultureLab

A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites

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A history of the first Americans in 9½ sites

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Humans

The eyes have it

Regulars

Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

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Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology

CultureLab

Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome

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Ancestry of first Americans revealed by a boy's genome

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Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off

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Coloured feathers readied first birds for take off

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Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home

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Ant squatters help feed the trees they call home

While some ants help protect their home trees from hungry beasts, others do nothing of the sort – but they may offer a less obvious benefit to their hosts

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Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in UK

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Zoologger: Punk Amazon pheasant is a European emigrant

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Life

Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

Features

Humans

Humanity's forgotten return to Africa revealed in DNA

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