Category: Anthropology
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Inspirational Catalysts and the Mystery of Beauty
Isaac Asimov once asserted that if it hadn’t been for the presence of the moon, human civilization would never have developed as quickly as it did. Early humans, he argued, were fascinated by the moon, and were stimulated to decipher the mystery of its existence. What were the phases of the moon, and why…
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Instinct and the Social Wilderness
At the instinctive level, the lives of young men are more expendable than the lives of young women, and there is a good reason for this instinct in terms of human survival. Imagine there were only 100 people left alive on the Earth, but that these 100 lived together in a single village,…