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Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

25 September 2019

Our survival instinct should undercut morality – but our mammalian brains pulled off an amazing evolutionary trick, says neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland
The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World

25 September 2019

The Americas were the last continents conquered by humanity. Now we know that those who settled there were a hardy group that first had to survive in the Arctic

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