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A person's brain and DNA

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Found: more than 500 genes that are linked to intelligence

Intelligence is thought to be up to 80 per cent genetic, but it’s been hard to pin down the genes involved. Now the largest study of its kind has found hundreds

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How ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ readers predicted the Oscar winners

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How ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ readers predicted the Oscar winners

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

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Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

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The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

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An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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

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

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

There are no right answers in the world of politics – but whether we’re drunk or just pressed for time, the less we think, the further to the right our answers lean

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Technology

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

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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

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