Sublime

Prior to the modern Western paradigm, other world views (such as the African Ubuntu philosophy – ‘I am because we are’) focused on the co-operative, cohesive side of man, which nineteenth-century Russian evolutionist Peter Kropotkin and more recently genome expert Matt Ridley confirmed is just as deep-rooted a part of human nature as individualisti

They appear to want some of the same things most of us want: recognition from their peers and communities and better lives for the people they care about. Being

While teaching at Brandeis University, working other jobs, and tending her kids, she managed to squeeze out the time to write an exhaustive paper that wove together evidence for her thesis from many different fields. That, in and of itself, was unusual. At Berkeley, she had been shocked by what she called “academic apartheid.” She rarely saw scient

One of the main arguments of the time against such evolutionary theory was the nonexistence of the intermaxillary bone in humans. It exists in all lower animals in the jaw, including primates, but at the time could not be found in the human skull. This was paraded as evidence that man is separate and created by a divine force. Based on his idea tha