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Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed.

Taking account of the drug-resistant germs turning up in rivers and soils.

It’s time to accept the limits of how we think.

Author Robert MacFarlane on the awe and horror of subterranean places.

An expert on animal societies on what sets human societies apart.

Once we acquire language, we can live without it.

We share the basic experience of life with all mammals.

A linguist exposes the inner truths about language.

Language builds meaning through self-similarity.

Hand gestures signal the emergence of human language.