A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them.
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Gowan Dawson on his 3 greatest revelations while writing his book Monkey to Man.
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And how conservationists are finding them.
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The loss of ice on Kilimanjaro and other peaks will upend ecosystems and livelihoods.
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Raising questions about the next generation of health wearables.
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Becoming attentive to the material and the structural has linked me much more to the kinds of themes Barry Buzan raises in Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras. Though in reading it I also became conscious that my inner cultural historian still has, and wants, a voice. Let me explain.
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His brilliant method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers.
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The first observation of humpback whale copulation reveals a surprise.
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Asteroids, boxing, and hallucinations, in the editor’s note from Print Issue 54.
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Asteroid defense gets serious.
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