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...Here's a zinger: what makes us human? What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking up right. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools. And at 2 million years ago what makes human is our large brains that are at least two and half times the size of a chimp's. At twenty thousand years ago, what makes...
...Where are we going as a species? You'll have to call me after a few martinis [Laughs]. Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take...
Perhaps Professor Levin expresses it best: “These are uncommonly interesting young human beings,” he says...
...superpowers will have to find a way to lay the foundation for cooperation on the world’s most pressing issue: climate change. And, as challenging as this will be, it arguably represents the most plausible vehicle for coperation between the two countries. The alternative, confrontations about human rights and “currency manipulation,” only promise to exacerbate conflict. Nothing will be accomplished...
Last night's "Witness" event in Memorial Church--meant to celebrate the intersection of the arts, humanities, and human rights--featured Toni Morrison reading from her 2008 novel, A Mercy. But Princeton's Nobel Laureate didn't join in the dancing (more on that after the jump.) Morrison, who recently turned 78, read from her wheelchair...