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My Day

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Posted on July 12, 2008 - 10:27pm at Tiny Cat Pants
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Something so terrible and humiliating happened to me today that I won’t even bring it up, except to mention it obliquely here, to remind myself in the future, so that, if there comes a time when I need to look back and wonder “When did I lose control of my life?” I will know it was today.

Why do humans barter?

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Posted on February 4, 2008 - 9:34pm at Sense of Events
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A better question might be, why do human beings barter, but no other species except chimpanzees, and even they barter differently than humans.

Despite the importance of this behavior, little is known about how barter evolved and developed.

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