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Lessons in conflict resolution from traditional societies

Eminent American geographer Jared Diamond on what we can learn from small-scale, politically independent societies that existed throughout human history before the rise of states about 5,400 years ago.

Against specialization

Remember when choice and flexibility were good things?

How religious practice “brainsoothes” more than any other human activity

Anthropologist Lionel Tiger on faith and sexual behaviour, why religion comforts us, and how churches act as ‘serotonin factories’