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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

We too often turn to insulting people’s brain power – and that closes off our ability to understand others, argues Melanie Challenger

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Thumb muscles

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Our dexterous thumbs have a 2 million-year-old origin

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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

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Was it just luck that our species survived and the Denisovans didn't?

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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans

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To improve our response to crises like covid-19 we must think smarter

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To improve our response to crises like covid-19 we must think smarter

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We’ve got intelligence all wrong – and that’s endangering our future

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We’ve got intelligence all wrong – and that’s endangering our future

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The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone Age embers

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The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone Age embers

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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

Foreign cells within our bodies help determine our mental states and even contribute to our immune defences – making it tricky to define where you end and the others begin

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Evolution explains why social distancing due to covid-19 is so hard

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Old books bound in human skin make for spooky Halloween reading

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Bad balance: why dangerous falls are on the rise around the world

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The theory of evolution is a vibrant, living entity still in its prime

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