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Books of The Times - ‘Catching Fire’ by Richard Wrangham - Humans, the Cooking Apes - Review - NYTimes.com

This author knocks the raw-foods diet, dismisses marriage as a "primitive protection racket," and insists that we are the small mouthed cooking ape. Marx reduced everything to economics, Freud did the same w/sex; for Wrangham it all comes down to cooking. It's an interesting hypothesis.

Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is 'missing link' human evolution | Science | guardian.co.uk

This little fellow (or one of his age peers) may be the ancestor of all primates.

The evolutionary argument for Dr. Seuss | Salon Books

An argument for the evolutionary value of fiction.

Could Evolutionary Computation Cut Billions of Years in Solving Problems?

Happy (belated) birthday, Darwin! A computer science and mathematics team from Hampshire College in Massachusetts and the State University of New York in New Paltz has used evolutionary processes to solve a century-old algebra problem far faster and more efficiently than any past efforts of humans or machines...

"carry into your everyday encounters an awareness that empathic understanding makes sense."

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