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John Elder

Infertility: How fewer babies might mean the end of the world

Babies might become more precious than ever – too few of them could tip us into extinction. Photo: Getty

What happened to our cousins, the Neanderthals? These were people who mourned their dead with flowers and trinkets, just like us.

They had babies with us. They may have learnt some of our language. Then, 40,000 years ago, they winked out as a species.

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