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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

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How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans – and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios

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Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

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Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

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Has social living shrunk our brains?

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Has social living shrunk our brains?

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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already

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How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already

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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

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Zoologger: Polar bears evolved to eat junk food

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era

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Neanderthals may have been our intellectual equals

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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Spark of life: Metabolism appears in lab without cells

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Spark of life: Metabolism appears in lab without cells

Complex processes that support all life have been serendipitously spotted with no cells needed, hinting that life could have started spontaneously in early oceans

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Stone Age DNA shows hunter-gatherers shunned farming

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Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

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One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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