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Author: Steve Jones

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep – conceived without male assistance – had arrived. Her birth reminded at least half the population of how precarious man’s position may be. What is the point of being a man? For a brief and essenti….Read More

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The Tie That Binds

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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

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