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April 01, 2026
A groundbreaking study, soon to be published in Nature Human Behaviour, authored by Matthew Hall, B. Tyler Leigh, and Brittany Solomon, sheds light on this overlooked but critical aspect of American democracy. Their research argues that democratic neutrality—often perceived as impartiality or disengagement from political partisanship—poses a formidable threat to the functioning and health of democracy in the United States.
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How meat became a measure of manhood
March 31, 2026
But some scholars have been poking holes in this widely accepted theory. Two of the most prominent critics of the “man the hunter” theory today are Sarah Lacy, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware, and Cara Ocobock, an associate professor of human biology at the University of Notre Dame, who’ve published papers together on the issue.
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