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Illustration of a mastodon

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First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

If the finding from butchered mastodon bones stands up to scrutiny, it could change everything we thought we knew about the earliest humans in the Americas

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A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

Life

Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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

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

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

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Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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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

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Humans

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

Evolution has given us an inbuilt fear factory. But by engaging a different way of thinking we can stop panicking and weigh up the real risks

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Humans

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Humans

Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Life

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

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