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  • The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel

    And yet we have very little idea where anuses come from.

    Katherine J. WuMay 18, 2021
    A cat in rear view
  • What Does Sentience Really Mean?

    The fact that AI isn’t alive doesn’t mean it can’t be sentient, the sociologist Jacy Reese Anthis argues.

    Annie LowreyMay 8, 2023
    two views of the human brain
  • Methods of Study in Natural History
    Louis AgassizNovember 1862 Issue
  • Noah's Wife: Or, What's in a Name?
    Robert M. GayJuly 1922 Issue
  • The Darwinian Theory
    Charles J. SpragueOctober 1866 Issue
  • 7 Wonders of the World: Monkeys!
    Rebecca GreenfieldJune 17, 2011
  • Adam's Task
    Phoebe-Lou AdamsOctober 1986 Issue
  • Always Drink Upstream: The Waste of Industrial Livestock Production
    Jon DevineFebruary 4, 2012
  • Loving a Good Slaughterhouse
    Ben EisendrathMarch 30, 2012
  • What Elephants and Whales Look Like From Space

    Only two creatures—both mammals—have been seen by private orbiting cameras.

    Robinson MeyerMarch 26, 2015
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