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Gender Is What You Make of It
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and the relationship that changed social science.
Why Doesn’t Everybody Have Dark Skin Today?
Questions and answers about the science of skin color.
The Worth of an Angry God
How supernatural beliefs allowed societies to bond and spread.
The Ancient Rites That Gave Birth to Religion
Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.
Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?
The surprising anthropology of group identity.
How We Make Gods
Taking lessons from the rise and fall of divinity in online games.
Love, Death, and Other Forgotten Traditions
What we don’t tell our children.
Drums, Lies, and Audiotape
When I was invited to drum in Ghana, I gladly accepted. Then something went wrong.
About Your Skin
What you should know about your body’s biggest organ.
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