The human paradox: blobs of matter fleeing their own mortality

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Stewart-Williams opens with a roll-call of human absurdity: we're blobs of matter that fall in love, mammals with the child-rearing patterns of birds, and — uniquely among animals — beings who know we're going to die and flee in terror from that knowledge. The passage captures what makes humans evolutionarily weird: a…

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