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Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

Do you think of smaller numbers being on the left of larger ones? Even two-day-old babies may think this way, suggesting we’re born with mental number lines

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Excavations in the Denisova cave

Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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Ancient human skulls

Life

We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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classroom scene

Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Children playing on a bouncy castle

Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

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A classroom in Uttar Pradesh

Health

Learning to read and write rewires adult brain in six months

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Humans

Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found

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Models of the skulls of human ancestors

Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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A sample containing DNA

Life

Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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Illustration of a mastodon

Humans

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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Life

Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

Features

Humans

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

Features

Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

Features