In a world where evolutionary biology often gets boiled down to simplistic hierarchies of "primitive" and "advanced" species, a new book by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) biologist ...

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A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

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