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DNA testing firms are cashing in our genes. Should we get a cut?

Companies like 23andMe that offer to reveal your genetic secrets from a spit test can also sell your data to drug developers for big sums

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Space

Old Scientist: Tanks on the moon and other wolves we’ve cried

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Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

Features

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Humans

We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

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Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

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Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving

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Is donating your DNA to the NHS worth the privacy risks?

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

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Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

After decades of arguing whether junk DNA exists, a study has calculated that without it we’d all have to reproduce in huge numbers to escape harmful mutations

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Humans

Child tooth is fourth fossil clue to mysterious Denisovan humans

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UK National ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Service should do more to exploit genomics

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Life

The ethics issue: Should we edit our children's genomes?

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Life

We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago

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