What If We’re Wrong?
What if the Earth isn’t the centre of everything? What if the ancestors of humans once looked like monkeys, or were single-celled organisms? What if the continents move?
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Heather E. Heying
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Professor (in exile) of evolutionary biology. Scientist, educator, writer, traveler. Explorer of ideas and space. Mother of two young engineers and naturalists.
Sex, Love and Sexual Autism
Sex came first. It arrived before any concept of self or other, before there was care for anyone at all. And certainly before love. Sexual reproduction first evolved 1.2 billion…
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A Values Proposition
This week, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a piece that includes the following sentence, about a man whom the author does not like: “He posts things on Heather…
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International Women’s Day, and Its Discontents
Womanhood has been weaponized. Some will argue that feminism has always been aggressive and short-sighted, but I disagree. In 1914, the concerns at the forefront of the women’s movement included…
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In the Footsteps of Those Who Came Before
The Yumbo people walked here for centuries. Now I walk through a cloud, green dripping all around, the call of a toucan dopplering towards me before a blur of color…
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On Abortion: Time, Space, Error and Ethics.
Nobody wants an abortion. No woman wants one, and no man who has thought about the issue wants any woman he cares about to be in a position in which…
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