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Bribiescas teaches biological anthropology at Yale University and is the author of Men: Evolutionary and Life History and How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality. As an ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Essential for life: this illustration shows how fundamental constants of nature set the fundamental lower limit for liquid viscosity. (Courtesy: thehackneycollective.com) The values of the fundamental ...