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City simulations

Humans

We need to talk about technology that people use to influence others

Multi-agent artificial intelligence simulations could show us how to help people live in harmony – or how to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment. We must agree rules for its use

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Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Humans

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Features

The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

Humans

The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

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The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

Humans

The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

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Life

Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil

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Life

Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

Culture

European populations have accumulated many mutations

Humans

Europeans have steadily accumulated mutations for thousands of years

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The cranium was discovered in Ethiopia

Humans

We've finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors

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Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think

Technology

Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think

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How walking helped humans take over the planet

Humans

How walking helped humans take over the planet

We are all fitter for a good walk – and we become smarter just by standing up. In fact, says a new book, the act of walking helped humans colonise a whole planet

Culture

Life

Don't Miss: African origins, deadly mozzies and meeting of minds

Culture

Environment

Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

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Humans

Our ancestors may have begun barbecuing 1.5 million years ago

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Humans

Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought

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