What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary
Society increasingly accepts gender identity as existing along a spectrum. The study of people, and their remains, shows that sex should be viewed the same way.
What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary
Biology
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Why Can’t Most Humans Drink Milk?
A 3,200-year-old piece of cheese from Egypt is providing more evidence about how humans evolved to consume dairy products.
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The Myth of Badass Sperm
We’ve all been taught that human fertilization is an Olympic-style competition. The truth is that it’s much more like a gigantic lottery.
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Why Can’t Apes Talk?
A recent study suggests they’ve got the voice but not the brains.
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Ancestry Tests Pose a Threat to Our Social Fabric
Commercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die.
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How Human Smarts Evolved
By counting the number of neurons in brains, one scientist revolutionized our view of why Homo sapiens and nonhuman primates are so much smarter than other animals.