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Bereavement and Commemoration
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Africa's belief and beyond
Ancient Ethiopia
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Saved by a leaky roof
La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México, II
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The time when the smartest young Americans emulated ears of corn
Maya Art and Architecture
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The grandeur that was Iraq
The Final Sack of Nineveh
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Why water never leads to wars
Water Policy
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Elephants on the pill, animals on the brink of extinction
Animal Conservation (four times a year)
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Two kinds of dome are covered by two kinds of programme on BBC2 this week. In Renaissance Secrets (Tuesday 7.30), the...
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Determined by degrees
A row about a book highlights the large gaps that exist between proponents and critics of genetic determinism Academics are deeply divided about intelligence research, especially the possibility of a...
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g whiz! IQ is a clver concept
What is intelligence and is it all inherited? Such questions lead many academics to fear IQ research.In a week when researchers from around the world met in London to debate the issue,Rosalind Arden...
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Female guide to shelf fulfilment
Where can you see Sally Gunnell's unitard, Emily Davison's train ticket, Darcy Bussell's shoes, and quite a few books? Anne Sebba reports on the first National Library of Women and its director,...
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98.4% human
Humans are so closely related to great apes that some scientists believe we should give them full legal rights and seek their consent before subjecting them to research. Ayala Ochert reports Panchee...
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On a Grecian yearn
In the first of an occasional series on the future of degree subjects, James Davidson says classics is enjoying a golden age of research - into sexuality, the body, food and even dance... A couple of...
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No research unless the chimp agrees
Roger Fouts met ten-month-old Washoe in 1967 when a PhD student in psychology. He was assigned to assist the young chimpanzee in becoming the first to learn a human language - American Sign Language...