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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging

In this informative book, Patrick House explores interpretations of consciousness through the story of a teenager who laughed during brain surgery when a surgeon artificially stimulated her neural activity

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DY5ANJ Which way to go?

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Future Stories review: Has thinking about the future got even harder?

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Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

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Who is Ancestor X? The biggest mystery in human evolution

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Who is Ancestor X? The biggest mystery in human evolution

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A4GTM3 Author, ecologist, inventor and scientist Professor James Lovelock in his laboratory at home on the Devon Cornwall border UK.. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.

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Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

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3D models of the femur and ulnae of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

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Human ancestors may have walked on two legs 7 million years ago

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Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms

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Digital restoration of fossil child and adult crania

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Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

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Life As Told By a Sapiens to a Neanderthal review: Joyful curiosity

This evolution bestseller is full of ironic humour, sharp insights and affectionate acknowledgement of human flaws – and ends up as a celebration of curiosity

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Beware the rise of corporate rituals designed to manipulate employees

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Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

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When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?

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Ancient DNA adds to evidence for Native Americans' east Asian ancestry

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