Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world Discrimination & Racism Among these errors is the

Among these errors is the tendency to over-estimate human rationality

but feeling that there must be a purpose which has thus far eluded them in this experience

from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award

Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops

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Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world Discrimination & Racism Among these errors is theThe sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavor. These night soil collectors of the planet have been worshipped as gods, worn as jewelry, and painted by artists. More practically, they saved Hawaii from ecological blight, and rescued Australia from plagues of flies.