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Whether a higher power exists is debatable, but widespread belief in one has helped humanity advance for millennia. Wade, a New York Times reporter, defends that provocative thesis with evidence drawn from biology, archaeology and anthropology. Humans may be innately selfish, he argues, but early hunter-gatherers needed to subordinate self-interest to the will of the group in order to survive, and "the solution that evolved was religious behavior"--humankind's best organizing principle. Ritual chants and dances fostered kinship and inspired tribes to battle outside threats. As language developed, people ascribed their good fortune to the supernatural...
...universe. Until theorists get further data and evidence to move forward, the experimentalists believe, they end up simply making wild guesses - like those concerning time-traveling saboteurs - about how the universe works. "Nielsen and Ninomiya's theories are clearly crazy theories," says Dmitri Denisov, a physicist and Higgs-hunter at the DZero experiment at Fermilab. "In recent years theorists have been starving for experimental input and as a result, theories of second type are propagating widely. The majority of them have nothing to do with world we live in." (See the best inventions...
...victory for those who are pressing for action against suspected Nazi criminals before they die. The trial, which opened last month and resumes on Nov. 17, "sends a very powerful message that the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of murderers," Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, said in a statement, "and that old age should not protect the killers of civilians." (See pictures of the rise of Adolf Hitler...
That's not because hunter-gatherers don't pass on wealth to their children. They do. Parents who know where to dig for the most nutritious tubers or how best to hunt elk will pass along that knowledge-based wealth to their kids. The difference is, that advantage is harder to monopolize than, say, a tract of land that comes with a deed. (See the best social-networking applications...
...other words, you don't want to be in the business of manufacturing clothes - you want to be in the business of designing them. "Our economy is different in a thousand ways from the hunter-gatherer societies we studied, but they may be similar in one critical way," says Bowles. "Whether you're forming a hunting party or a team of software engineers, what matters is your creativity and your ability to make connections with others...