How Our Contradictions Make Us Human and Inspire Creativity

The fissures created in our experiences between our principles and actions can be a source of profound creativity and reflection.
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The skeleton on the left is “Lucy,” an Australopithecus afarensis that is 3.2 million years old. The one on the right is a Homo naledi called “Neo,” which…

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What Anthropologists Do

The strength of anthropology is that we are always learning, gathering data isn’t something we do in a lab or even something we can easily shut off. We…

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