‘Uniquely helpless’: ‘Growing Up Human’ discusses why our species has such an extraordinarily long childhood

‘Uniquely helpless’: ‘Growing Up Human’ discusses why our species has such an extraordinarily long childhood

Wall Street Journal | 
Despite all the advice books written for parents about infancy and childhood, there have been surprisingly few treatments of childhood ...
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Evolution’s unpredictable dark side: Everything ‘natural’ is not always good

Nautilus | 
Given a choice, most people gravitate toward the natural over the artificial. After all, natural environments are preferable to garbage ...
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Humanzee: Creating lab-produced human-chimpanzee hybrids would be ‘profoundly ethical’

Nautilus | 
It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a ...

Is altruism just selfishness in disguise?

Wall Street Journal | 
Evolution proceeds by the differential reproduction of genes, so the challenge is to explain the persistence of a trait that, ...
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Humans’ love of watching animals is hardwired

Aeon | 
Humans derive pleasure watching animals in zoos, nature and in popular culture. Beyond their uses as food sources and domestic ...

The mysterious genetics of homosexuality

Chronicle of Higher Education | 
[A] reasonable summary is that, when it comes to male homosexuality, there is almost certainly a direct influence, although probably ...
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