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Here's a healthier way to look at menopause. It's one of those facts of life, like bipedalism, that set Homo sapiens apart from the nonhuman primates. Their females decline pretty rapidly after they stop being fertile. Ours continue to thrive for decades. Scientists still argue about the details, but women have long taken advantage of nature's largesse to help rear grandchildren, start new ventures and, with any luck, pass on some accumulated wisdom...
...were interacting with everything from dirigibles to a desk to a shaky hologram of a digitally resurrected Laurence Olivier (another actor voiced his new lines). George Lucas and others have created scenes in front of blue screens before, but Conran was the first to try to build absolutely everything nonhuman on the computer. It's the anti--Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with Conran leaving holes for the actors, who ran from one piece of tape on the floor to another as cameramen were instructed to tilt and rotate by exact degrees at precise moments. That, it turns out, does...
...Cushman ’03, is what makes him “revolutionary” in his field. “What’s so unique about Marc’s approach,” says Cushman, “is that he combines human behavioral research with nonhuman research...
...this amounted to a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft’s position. Taylor’s conclusion was wrong, of course, but he was right in asserting that we have the same reasons to respect the interests of all sentient animals—male or female, human or nonhuman...
...there's indeed much more than babies involved in the reasons for sex, we're clearly not the first species to benefit from that fact. Even among the nonhuman orders, sex appears to be regularly practiced for a whole range of nonreproductive reasons with a wide range of community-building benefits. How else to explain the fact that homosexual behavior occurs in more than 450 species? How else to explain kissing among bonobos, nuzzling among zebras, literal necking among male giraffes? How else to explain the fact that some sexually active animals seem to avoid reproduction quite deliberately, mating...