In a new book on duck sex, dancing birds, and human orgasms, Richard Prum argues against a cold and utilitarian view of nature's splendor.

Livestock has long been a way of life for Navajo families. Now it’s also a way for them to make money.

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

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