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Mental Problems Gave Early Humans an Edge
Penny Spikins at the University of York believes that mental illness and conditions such as autism persist at such...
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Genes of Extinct Ancestor Survive in Modern Humans
“We haven’t been a very exclusive species, with a very narrow origin,” said Martin Jacobsson. Interbreeding with other members...
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Opinion: An Electrifying Ancestor
We know we got here from somewhere, but who would have suspected it was by way of a fish...
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Genetic Mutation May Have Led to Rise of Humans
A genetic mutation possibly linked to malarial resistance may have helped drive the evolution of the genus Homo, humans’...
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Denisovan DNA in the Islands, and an Australian Genome
Many human geneticists have argued our present pattern of diversity originated in a wave of successive founder effects coming...
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Baroque Consilience: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Colonial Latin America’s great feminist poet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, combined images of transcendence with the immanence...
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Can We Be Awe-Inspired without Thinking Hierarchically?
We are complex animals with complex, multifaceted thought processes. The Darwinian approach to religion is only beginning to...
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The Alpha Factor and Religion
The alpha factor is a symbolic principle of organization often attached to religious mapping, but it is one with...
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Multiplying NonZero: Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
In day-to-day life, there all kinds of non-zero-sum games that people play. Robert Wright sees this as "the secret...
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