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Individuals with higher mortality risk—as judged by actuarial life insurance data—tend to care less about long-term ...

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Evolution has given us deeply complex characters with deep backstories, and not all of them have gotten equal opportunities to shine.

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Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

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Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.