Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures? Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down ...

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Jonathan Swift loved to wind up readers by insisting we are no better than any other animals. In his 1732 poem, The Beasts’ Confession, the Anglo-Irish satirist imagined a wolf, an ass, a pig, a ...

In the late nineteenth century, the search for humanity’s ancient ancestors was still driven more by speculation than by fossil evidence. That changed dramatically when Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois ...

“The Creatures’ Guide to Caring” explores how communal child-rearing allowed animals from wasps to humans to evolve and thrive. The following is an excerpt from “The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How ...

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