Duke University/WikiMedia Commons In recent days I have put it out on social media that Duke University is investigating one of its anthropolog…
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Read moreAmerican Museum of Natural History -- Wikimedia Commons It's been about 10 months since the last curator of human origins at the American Mu…
Read moreDavid Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons Last Sunday, according to the New York Times , Harvey Weinstein sent an email to agents and studio executives …
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Read moreEmmanuel Macron/Wikimedia Commons I have been a socialist all of my adult life, although what I mean by that has changed over the years. But a m…
Read moreThe calculated "heritability" for having two hands is essentially zero. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Leon Brocard In the May issue of Sc…
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