Chip Walter's Blog: Childhood Is Why We Are the Last Ape Standing

Utqiagvik — the e...

Can the human race survive? No, but extinction has many meanings, and evolution has a few tricks up its long sleeve.

“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler,
a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice,
the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some
old blind allegiance to the past, fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

—Loren Eiseley, The Immense Jour...

Around the time that Thumbs, Toes and Tears (my third book) came out, I wrote an article for Scientific American Mind magazine exploring the evolution of kissing. It’s one of six uniquely human traits.

The article, like the one I wrote for Scientific American about crying , was very popular and republished multiple times. And both were picked up in other mainstream and peer reviewed publications around the world.

Here’s an updated version…

This article is reprinted from the Vagabond Adventure. The original article can be found at vagabond-adventure.com/reach-articles/the-10-greatest-adventure-and-travel-books-ever

Traveling is wonderful, but there are some places you simply can’t explore because time has left them behind. Luckily we have writers, adventurers and books. Over the years I’ve read a few. These are my 10 favorites. Each one changed the way I ...

We take it for granted, but the human hand is a marvel. How did it become that way? Without it, we wouldn’t be human …

Look at your hand. Hold it up. Flex it. Bend it. M...

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