I arrived on a day of this last cold bone-chilling month of December.
Some birds start hopping around and looking for food within seconds of hatching. Humans, in stark contrast, are the most altricious species known, and helpless for a very long time after birth. As evolutionary scholars Peter Richerson and Rob Boyd put it, “We are the largest brained, slowest developing member of the largest brained, slowest developing mammalian order.”
The Harbour Bar was full of Royal Navy officers with debby girls. The debbiest took McKinley and me sailing, and afterwards we drank tankards of Pimms in the Yacht Club.
Some wag coined the word tuckermanity, formed on his [Henry Theodore Tuckerman's] name and on the analogy of humanity, and meaning excessive propriety and conventionality in the literary treatment of love.
tuckermanity,
humanity,
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