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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

Humans

Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

The extra-large, dagger-like canine teeth seen in male great apes have been missing from human ancestors for at least 4.5 million years – possibly because females opted for less aggressive partners

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Close up CCTV security camera with blur of traffic jam in the background

Technology

Our global agreement on AI could reduce bias and surveillance

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Watch face - selective focus

Technology

AI has learned to read the time on an analogue clock

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Humans

What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

Humans

Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Upper central deciduous incisor

Life

Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]

Life

New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

Health

Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Life

13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Features

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Life

Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

Dig down, and evolution by natural selection is just about spontaneous, sustained accumulation of complexity – if life elsewhere exists, it’s likely to develop in the same way

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Humans

Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’ heads

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Health

Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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Technology

AI can quickly identify structure of drugs designed for ‘legal highs’

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Humans

Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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