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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

If we know the idea of difference based purely on race is wrong, why do we still hang on to the idea of race in science, asks science writer Angela Saini.

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Fossil teeth could change our understanding of human evolution

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Did we split from Neanderthals 400,000 years earlier than we thought?

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Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?

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Will genetic data inspire healthy lifestyle changes in Finland?

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Thousands of people in Finland to receive genetic health predictions

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The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

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Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

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Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity

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New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

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Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

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Two-million-year-old toothache may have killed an early human

A new analysis of a rare hominin specimen has revealed what may be the earliest known dental abscess – a painful mass of pus growing inside the jaw – in the Homo genus

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Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA

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Genetic risk scores on their own aren't that good at predicting health

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Genetics studies are too white – that’s failing people and science

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Evidence of early Australian arrival is best judged with an open mind

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