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Why evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network | Aeon Essays
Classic evolutionary theory holds that species separate over time. But it’s fuzzier than that – now we know they also merge
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To me,’ wrote William Blake in 1799, ‘this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination.’ The imagination, he later added, ‘is not a state: it is the human existence itself.’ Blake, a pai... View More
Imagination isn’t the icing on the cake of human cognition | Aeon Essays
Imagination isn’t just a spillover from our problem-solving prowess. It might be the core of what human brains evolved to do
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Look into the secret world of numerology and puzzles in Bach | Aeon Essays
Look beneath the surface of Bach’s music and you will find a fascinating hidden world of numerology and cunning craft
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Amalia Holst, and how the German Enlightenment failed women | Aeon Essays
Brilliant and fierce, the philosopher and educator Amalia Holst demonstrated how the German Enlightenment failed women
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How a vanished ancient Greek city helps us think about disasters | Aeon Essays
Vanished beneath the waves in 373 BCE, Helike is a byword for thinking about disaster, for ancients and moderns alike
Building ‘bigger and better’ has pushed cosmology forward. Can it take it any further? | Aeon Videos
After decades of progress, cosmology is at a crossroads. Can it take its next big leap to solve the puzzles of dark matter?
Neurodiversity is not enough. We should embrace psydiversity | Aeon Essays
We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity
How Hokusai’s Great Wave emerged from Japan’s isolation to become a global icon | Aeon Videos
Why Hokusai’s Great Wave – created amid Japanese isolation – became a resounding artistic and commercial success worldwide
On the torment of insect minds and our moral duty not to farm them | Aeon Essays
Insect farming bakes, boils and shreds animals by the trillion. It’s immoral, risky and won’t resolve the climate crisis
