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They surfaced in the writings of the British author Douglas Adams, whose playful imagination often touched philosophical concerns that resonate differently today. Today, March 11, marks the birth ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

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When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...