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Stone Age skull-smashers spark a cultural mystery

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Stone Age skull-smashers spark a cultural mystery

A cache of Neolithic skulls unearthed in Syria had been exhumed, separated from their bodies, had their faces smashed in and been reburied. But why?

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Interbreeding with Neanderthals, or simply breeding?

Opinion

Death by IQ: US inmates condemned by flawed tests

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Death by IQ: US inmates condemned by flawed tests

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Human and Neanderthal interbreeding questioned

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Human and Neanderthal interbreeding questioned

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Changeable climate makes frogs vulnerable to disease

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Changeable climate makes frogs vulnerable to disease

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Zoologger: The longest tunnels dug by a mammal

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Zoologger: The longest tunnels dug by a mammal

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Sandpipers achieve world record for sleeplessness

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Sandpipers achieve world record for sleeplessness

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Stem cells responsible for higher brain function found

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Fossils confirm three early humans roamed Africa

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Fossils confirm three early humans roamed Africa

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Chimeric birds could explain how brains get big

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Chimeric birds could explain how brains get big

Zebra finch brains develop differently if they are transplanted into the bodies of quail, suggesting that brain size is under external control

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Zoologger: Colour tricks help put a cuckoo in the nest

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Modern culture began in South Africa 44,000 years ago

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Humans

Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out

Opinion

Life

The true faces of emotion

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