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Sharp thinking: How shaping tools built our brains

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Sharp thinking: How shaping tools built our brains

How did we become the smartest creatures on Earth? The story of our ancestors' mental leaps can be found in stones – a modern-day flint-knapper is our guide

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How can you ensure that your life is worth living?

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New cache of fresh neurons found in human brains

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New cache of fresh neurons found in human brains

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Our blender brain: How mixing ideas made us human

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Our blender brain: How mixing ideas made us human

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Cure for love: Chemical cures for the lovesick

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Cure for love: Chemical cures for the lovesick

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Brain zapping makes role of mirror neurons clearer

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Brain zapping makes role of mirror neurons clearer

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Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

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Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

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First brain map of speech units could aid mind-reading

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First brain map of speech units could aid mind-reading

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Conversation app helps parents boost child's language

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Conversation app helps parents boost child's language

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Neuroscience's most famous brain is reconstructed

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Neuroscience's most famous brain is reconstructed

Henry Molaison's brain changed our understanding of memory – now a 3D reconstruction of it is revealing new insights

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Scratch a mirror image of your itch to bring relief

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Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

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Life

The urge to dehumanise others is itself all too human

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Life

Talent for prejudice: Why humans dehumanise others

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