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Photo: Northwest Crown Fire Experiment, by permission of the USDA Forest Service / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).

Fire and Fitness: A Summary of the Evidence

Surely there could not be an equivalent ensemble of fitness in nature for some other type of life. Read More ›
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glass-making
Photo: Glass-making, by Hessam / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

How Man Became the Fire-Maker

Being terrestrial is one obvious requirement. No fully aquatic species could master fire and thus develop metallurgy. Read More ›
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Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”

The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do. Read More ›

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