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Bob Grant | Jul 1, 2016 | 3 min read
The Scientist reviews Serendipity, Complexity, The Human Superorgasism, and Love and Ruin
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Bob Grant | Jan 31, 2011 | 3 min read
Quirk, Darwin's Armada, The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, Elegance in Science
Book excerpt from The Wild Life of Our Bodies
Rob Dunn | Jun 4, 2011 | 7 min read
In Chapter 9, "We Were Hunted, Which is Why All of Us are Afraid Some of the Time and Some of Us are Afraid All of the Time," author Rob Dunn explains how predators shaped our evolution as we cowered and ran from their ravenous maws.
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Bob Grant | May 1, 2016 | 4 min read
Sorting the Beef from the Bull, Cheats and Deceits, A Sea of Glass, and Following the Wild Bees
The Gravity of Life
Rob Dunn | Jun 1, 2011 | 3 min read
Whose well-being is threatened by our changing relationship with the myriad organisms that shaped the evolution of our species?
Book Excerpt from COVID-19
Debora MacKenzie | Jul 17, 2020 | 3 min read
In Chapter 8, author Debora MacKenzie recounts an unfortunate history of baselessly blaming disease outbreaks on groups perceived as outsiders.
Snake Tales
Ruth Williams | Mar 1, 2012 | 4 min read
An anthropologist and a herpetologist join forces to reveal the complex shared evolutionary and ecological history of pythons and primates.
Book Excerpt from The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
Ian Tattersall | May 31, 2015 | 3 min read
In the prologue, “Lemurs and the Delights of Fieldwork,” author Ian Tattersall shares the paleoanthropological lessons he learned from studying non-human primates in Madagascar.
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The Scientist Staff | Nov 15, 1987 | 3 min read
ANTHROPOLOGY Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford E. Spiro. Benjamin Kilborne, L.L. Langness, eds. University of Chicago Press: November, 344 pp $17.95 PB, $48 HB. A collection of Spiro’s major theoretical writings, focusing on his theories of culture and human nature, functional analysis and religion. BIOGRAPHY Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S. H.W. Buxton. M.I.T. Press: November, 425 pp, $50. Profile of Charles Babbage, the fou
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Bob Grant | May 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Madness and Memory, Promoting the Planck Club, The Carnivore Way, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

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