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Read moreAn impressive array of people from academia and activism are challenging the colonial legacy in higher education.
Read moreHereditary traits and even eugenics are back in the headlines, as a series of new books seek to influence the nature-nurture debate.
Read moreNew research suggests that the familiar story of early human society is wrong – and the consequences are profound.
Read moreMen dominate the field of mathematics. Why is this, and what can be done?
Read moreWhy 20th-century communists couldn’t decide if they wanted to befriend the religious or blow up their churches.
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