“I’d love to see two Chicago gangs meet in this way on our marae at the Field Museum” (Image: photographed for New Scientist by Roark Johnson)
Human culture is about survival of the friendliest, says anthropologist John Edward Terrell – and Westerners could learn from more traditional societies
You say that friendliness, rather than savageness, is what marks us out as a species…
People often have a grim view of what it means to be human. There’s this conception that inside each of us is a Mr Hyde – an evilness that’s dying to get out – and also that we…
