How We Pulled a Bull Elephant from a Treacherous Sinkhole We are no strangers to rescuing trapped elephants — last year alone, our teams saved 17 elephants from mud — but this operation brought some unique challenges.

Moving recent rescue of a bull elephant from a sinkhole.

In #BLUEPRINTbook, I review how we can infer the social organization of mammoths from the fact that males were much more often found buried in tar pits than females: they were more solitary and had no other elephant to help.

The natural architecture of oyster reefs maximizes recruit survival - Nature Survival of reef-building oysters peaks at specific combinations of fractal dimension and height that reduce predation, showing how optimal three-dimensional habitat geometry can guide more effec...

Another fabulous example of an exophenotype (as also discussed in #BLUEPRINTbook): oyster reefs thrive when specific combinations of fractal dimension and height are present, enhancing recruit survival and minimizing predation. Very cool science here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage Fewer young people are getting into relationships.

Yes, love is fundamental and innate in human beings, as discussed in #BLUEPRINTbook.

“Across cultures, people describe the experience of falling for someone in quite similar ways. The sensation is big; it’s overwhelming; it can feel utterly transcendent.”

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I must. ;-) See: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... #BLUEPRINTbook

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"All humans are like an oasis in the desert, and the rest is like the empty quarter of sociology." #OurCommonHumanity humannaturelab.net/public-lectu...

We each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society. #BLUEPRINTbook

Longer explanation and full citations (for various species) in #BLUEPRINTbook. ;-)

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Regarding the evolution of friendship, see Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society amazon.com/Blueprint-Ev... #BLUEPRINTbook 13/

I hope you like #BLUEPRINTbook. :-)