The researchers suggest that cooperative breeding might have developed when our earliest ancestors, who evolved in Africa, first moved from life in the trees to a more precarious existence in savanna and woodland environments, several million years ago. (sciencemag.org)
After a random act of violence shatters the Goodenough family's already precarious existence, the couple's son, Robert, flees the Black Swamp, straight into the muscular arms of the California Gold Rush. (bookpage.com)
Art dealers have become easy scapegoats in today's irrationally exuberant art world, but it's worth remembering that most have fairly precarious existences and that they're absolutely essential: They take chances on artists, create opportunities for them and, ideally, sell work so that they can continue making. (observer.com)