like Yong’s braided rivers, we know that as that species spread throughout the world in perhaps several egresses from Africa, those spreads did not emanate from many different places in Africa. And they don’t overturn the indubitable
He went with the name Greenland to make it sound all fuzzy to people back in Europe because in order to start a successful settlement, he needed a lot of settlers willing to migrate there. So the name is a remnant of a 10th century scam.2...
Once peak oil frees us from the tyranny of choice and all we have to choose is who gets to be morlock and who eloi, maybe we'll find that we're just as happy. It may be a shorter life, but more vivid. It'd be far better if humans took a real look at the biological basis ...