Evolving Brains by John Allman: A Map of the Mind’s Long Journey
Somewhere inside the three pounds of tissue behind your eyes is a history that stretches…
The Evolution of Primate Behavior by Alison Jolly — A Review
Knowing where you came from is not a trivial pursuit. It shapes how you understand…
Darwin’s Audubon by Gerald Weissmann: When Science and Art Remember They Were Never Strangers
Gerald Weissmann was the kind of man who read Audubon’s watercolors the way most people…
The Astronaut Who Returned Older and Younger Simultaneously: Scott Kelly and the Body’s Underground Reckoning With Space
The NASA Twin Study found that 340 days in space rewrote Scott Kelly’s genome, elongated his telomeres, altered his gut microbiome, and shifted his cognition. His twin brother Mark aged normally. What is the self when space rewrites the cells?
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence — Richard Wrangham & Dale Peterson (Book Review)
Few books announce their subject as bluntly as Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of…
What the James Webb Space Telescope’s First Exoplanet Atmosphere Readings Mean for the Search for Life
JWST was built to see the first stars. It is now reading the chemical signatures of alien atmospheres. Here’s what the findings actually mean — and where the biosignature threshold sits.
