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"What makes the field of human evolutionary theory so interesting right now is that, deep down, we really don’t know how any of these capabilities evolved."

"During the dictatorship, record companies or musicians had to submit every song that they were doing to the government censors to be approved. So to get around that censorship, they would use homophones. There’s a really well known song by Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil called ‘Cálice’ which, written down, is the word for ‘chalice’, but spoken it sounds exactly the same as ‘shut your mouth’ or ‘shut up, keep your mouth closed’. But no, it’s pretending to be a song about a chalice!" —Zoë Perry via

" Every one of them asked me to do the same thing: keep them anonymous, and don’t let this go quiet."