Archive for June 2022

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been shaping and managing the world. Recently, we’re doing it with increasing speed, influence, and zeal. We shape and are shaped by our caretaking, consumption, manipulation of, destruction of and compassion for other beings. Human life is a multispecies endeavor, a current in which humans and our…

Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying. KEY TAKEAWAYS Awe is a complex feeling. It is a combination of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder, or an emotion combining dread, veneration, and marvel.  Humans are not the only animals to experience awe, but our experience of it is…

Concern over the world having too many people or too few has led some public figures to predict doom for humanity. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)BY LAURA J. MARTIN, ERLE C. ELLIS AND AGUSTÍN FUENTESMARCH 28, 2022 3 AM PT Will birth rates doom humanity? Tech billionaire Elon Musk sounded an old alarm in December when he claimed that…

Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish. By Agustín Fuentes 11 MAY 2022 This article is also available in: Español AGUSTÍN FUENTES is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. At the recent U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings…