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The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018

From advances in mind reading and medical procedures to AI law enforcement and CRISPR controversy, 2018 was a year of highs and lows. Here are our highlights

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2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our species’ deep evolutionary past

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Peter Campbell: Understanding cancer using the clues in your DNA

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Peter Campbell: Understanding cancer using the clues in your DNA

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Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

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Our primate ancestors may have originated in Europe or North America

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Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human

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UK DNA project hits major milestone with 100,000 genomes sequenced

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UK DNA project hits major milestone with 100,000 genomes sequenced

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

We thought the first Homo species evolved in East Africa 2.8 million years ago, but stone tools from Algeria suggest our origins may have spanned the continent

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‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’

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Gene-editing humans has huge potential, but caution is needed

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The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

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Bruce Whitelaw: Should we gene edit farm animals?

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