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Did an ice age boost human brain size?

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Did an ice age boost human brain size?

Why did we humans evolve such big brains? Two new studies suggest it is no fluke that a big boom in brain size coincided with the onset of an ice age

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Scent of fear puts brain in emergency mode

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Scent of fear puts brain in emergency mode

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Synchronised blinking stops viewers missing the action

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Scary music is spookier with eyes shut

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Scary music is spookier with eyes shut

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The blind spot and the vanishing head illusion

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Is your cat left or right pawed?

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Is your cat left or right pawed?

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'Oprah neuron' hints at nature of memory

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'Oprah neuron' hints at nature of memory

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Why children paint trees blue

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Apes may imitate but they struggle to innovate

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Apes may imitate but they struggle to innovate

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Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients

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Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients

A new comparison of tests for detecting consciousness suggests that around 40 per cent of people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are in fact "minimally conscious"

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Girl with half a brain retains full vision

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Artistic tendencies linked to 'schizophrenia gene'

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Review: The Root of Thought by Andrew Koob

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Blindspot shows brain rewiring in an instant

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