Hadza camps’ shifting community standards outweigh individuals’ interest in sharing resources
Anyone with a five-year-old can tell you that sharing is not a completely ingrained behavior in humans.
Anyone with a five-year-old can tell you that sharing is not a completely ingrained behavior in humans.
It’s probably embarrassingly easy to come up with personal examples of being lazy.
For as influential and beneficial as agriculture has been for the human race, we’re not actually sure why we started farming in the first place.
Homo sapiens are the last living hominid on Earth, but some of our extinct kin “live on” in our gene pool.
You may have your mom’s hair, or your dad’s eyes, but how about humanity’s eyebrows?
Your typical marmoset conversation has a lot of “tskiks,” “ekks,” and “pheees.” From a human perspective, it’s a pretty limited set of sounds— plenty of birds and signing apes have bigger vocabularies at their disposals.
Even if you don’t understand the lyrics, your brain may be wired to recognize the meaning of music from around the world.
You might not want to eat while reading this.
For as many times as we tell our kids to believe in themselves, it’s good to keep in mind that confidence can sometimes be misleading.
Your foot may ache, smell and maybe need a toenail trim, but it’s a pretty special bit of anatomy.