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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude

Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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  • A steep rock face in the sea is populated by a large number of animals. Coloured etching by R. Scott and J. Stewart.
  • French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • 1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
  • Disease and organs treated by a vodoo practitioner in Benin. Acrylic paintings, 199-.
  • Disease and organs treated by a vodoo practitioner in Benin. Acrylic paintings, 199-.
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