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Complex farming societies were able to thrive in even the toughest rainforest areas. Human ingenuity is boundless.
Chest. Everything looked strange and slow. Vernon bent over him. He felt him give his chest a big shove, and he felt his arms being raised. All at once the pressure seemed to break, and he coughed vio...
At least the higher animals have souls, and they are inevitably saved. Only man, who has the capacity for good and evil, can be damned.
Animals surely would be in Heaven, otherwise Heaven would not be Heaven.
Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount—they only shift from one player to the other.
You see, when someone says it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I...
While doing a survey in the area, he came across what looked like the remains of a small pre-Columbian village scattered about an ancient lava bed, called Angamuco, once a settlement of the fierce Pur...
When all else has been discarded, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
What? This cleric wants to give Jennie religious instruction? How peverse! I explained that he was really a harmless old man who Jennie was quite fond of. Dr. Prentiss found the whole idea diabolical....
What was it Voltaire said? To the living we owe respect, but to the dead only truth. I honor Hugo’s memory by telling the truth about him.
We didn’t use food as a reward. As some previous ASL researchers did. Jennie’s reward was making herself understood. That is, she was rewarded like a human child would be rewarded. We wanted to replic...
This idea that animals in nature are uncorrupt and peaceful, while man is corrupt, violent, and unnatural, is sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated, onehundred-percent crap.
They use the label anthropomorphization as a cover, because they’re scared that maybe we’re all just animals after all!
The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans discovered the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn’t exist before Europeans saw them.
The real blow to the project came in 1973. I expected a renewal of my NSF grant for 1973. This was automatic. The NSF rarely cuts off funding in the middle of a research project, especially when the r...
The people of Honduras don’t have a clear cultural identity. We have to start learning more about our past in order to create a brighter future.
The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy—and one that obscures the real problem: there are many wicked people in the world, rich and poor. That is the real divide—between...
She picked up the book she was reading, Beyond the Ice Limit, found her dog-eared place at the beginning of chapter six, and began to read. The sea horizon lay against the sky, blue against perfect bl...
She became particularly irritable toward me and Sandy. She would not allow us to approach her, let alone touch her, and she often broke into loud screams if we approached. She also became curiously in...