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Rowan Hooper interviews super humans at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Live

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How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

Rowan Hooper asks special guests what it feels like to be exceptional. And what does it take to get there?

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Graduates holding diploma

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D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think

Features

Bonobo/Pygmy chimpanzee

Humans

Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong

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Angela Saini and Lilian Anekwe

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Race science: How dangerous and discredited ideas persist in biology

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young

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Lee Berger at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Live

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Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi

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Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963. The full-scale Lascaux II replica opened nearby in 1983. The Lascaux cave paintings in south-western France, around 17,000 years old, were painted by Cro-Magnon man, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), using red, brown and yellow ochre, and black manganese dioxide. They may have had religious and artistic significance. Photographed in 2010.

Environment

Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why

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DNA cartoon

Technology

Why US police could be using your genes to profile you right now

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Baby plays with DNA double helix

Health

Sequencing the genome of every UK baby would be an ethical minefield

Analysis

Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

An extinct ape that lived in Germany 11.6 million years ago may have been bipedal – even though bipedality is the hallmark of more human-like species

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Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It's complicated

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Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from Melanesia

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Mind

Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development

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