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Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed

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Secrets of how primates can live at extreme altitude revealed

Gene selection explains how some species of snub-nosed monkeys have adapted to the challenging conditions of their habitat up to 4600 metres above sea level

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Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

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You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human

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Command and cure: We don't need to edit genomes to control them

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Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

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Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

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First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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Craig Venter's plans to scour 2 million genomes for drug targets

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Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience

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Breakthrough in synthetic biology is far from 'playing God'

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Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health

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Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

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Who do you think you are? 4 rules can help you know yourself

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