Every academic discipline worth its salt has at least one big idea. In evolutionary biology, it’s the concept of natural selection. In social psychology, it’s the idea that human behavior is primarily ...

In a series of studies over more than 20 years, University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts and her colleagues have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have ...

There’s something about difference that contracts our minds and bodies. Something that urges us to seek shelter within the safe walls of similarity. But what if this evolutionary tendency robs us of ...

Mathematician Cheng attempts to impart crucial life lessons via the fundamentals of math in her uneven latest (after Is Maths Real?). The focus is on the meaning of “sameness” and “difference” in both ...

“Some men are women too / the way a mountain is land and a harbor is land and a parking lot / Refuse the difference between sameness and difference” writes Ari Banias in the first poem of his most ...