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human genome

Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

Humans

Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

A cache of stone tools found in south India reveals that the hominins living there over 170,000 years ago already had advanced tool-making skills  

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Technician injects fluid into MinION DNA sequencer

Technology

Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome

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Trump supporters

Humans

Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

Features

Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

Technology

Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

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Josiah Zayner

Humans

Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

Insight

Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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CRISPR gene editing

Health

We’ve evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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DNA test kit

Health

DNA testing firms are cashing in our genes. Should we get a cut?

Insight

drugs

Space

Old 51¶¯Âþ: Tanks on the moon and other wolves we’ve cried

If you’re looking for scare stories, you’re in the wrong place. Except sometimes, as 51¶¯Âþs of October past show

Regulars

Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

Features

Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Features

Humans

We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

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Humans

Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

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