I wrote this essay for PopMatters—it’s about Best Month Ever!, a video game in which you play as a dying mother, and how our society takes mothers and their work for granted.
I wrote this essay for PopMatters—it’s about Best Month Ever!, a video game in which you play as a dying mother, and how our society takes mothers and their work for granted.
“Studies of human behaviors like giving and trust suggest that environmental (as opposed to genetic) factors explain the overwhelming portion of variation in cooperative behavior. Although there’s been a great deal of effort by scientists to demonstrate that human behavior and cognition are reducible to genetic factors, these investigations have been to little avail, especially when it comes to traits relevant to social behavior.”
Cottontail rabbits are among the 20 lagomorph species in the genus Sylvilagus, found in the Americas. Most Sylvilagus species have stub tails with white undersides that show when they retreat, giving them their characteristic name.