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power of mother-love,

Cooking, one of the omnivore’s cleverest tools, opened up whole new vistas of edibility. Indeed, in doing so it probably made us who we are. By making these foods more digestible, cooking plants and animal flesh vastly increased the amount of energy available to early humans, and some anthropologists believe this boon accounts for the dramatic incr

This is a rare moment when the females and not the males are named in the lineage.

"We are not animals!"

olfactory receptors—cells in the nose that detect odor molecules—make up the largest single family in the human genome. Out of around 19,000 genes, Axel and Buck found, nearly 1,000—5 percent—are olfactory receptors.

wilderwoman

Our brains are wired by thousands of years of evolution to be curious. This curiosity drives us to seek answers and resolve knowledge gaps before our minds can rest.