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The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution. Illustration by Paul ... After the sun goes down, our ape cousins spend the entire evening asleep or inactive in nests.

As Wilson sees it, human beings are eusocial apes, and in our brand of extreme ... “The human condition is an endemic turmoil rooted in the evolution processes that created us,” he writes.

The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist. By Alissa Wilkinson This deliciously nasty reworking of the ...

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Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...

Thus, small children were considered particularly suited to bridging the gap between the worlds and delivering messages to non-human entities. In this paper, we connect these insights and propose that ...

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Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying parasites and their hosts.