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"This book uncovers the ways natural selection leads to imperfection in humans and the implications of this for our understanding of how evolution works and human biology and health. The simplest version of evolution frames it as a gradual process...
Aliens in all shapes and sizes--some fearsome, some outlandish, and some just plain fun--fill the pages of these hand-picked classic stories by sci-fi grand master Robert Silverberg, each featuring a new introduction by the acclaimed author. ...
"Silverberg was one of my favorites as a teenager. I was excited to see this collection and tore into it. There are a few good stories here but I realize now that many of these short stories don't really stand the test of time. Or maybe their appea..."
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"The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of...
"Some reviewers thought this book biased or poorly referenced. This is a relatively hard read because it is simply a chronology of facts and events. I kept thinking thinking that if a historian from another continent had written a history of Americ..."
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