XYY Men

By Jack El-Hai | June 4, 2015 |

Geneticists have long argued about the effects of having an extra male chromosome, a condition found in 1 of 1,000 men A battered paperback entitled The XYY Man, by Kenneth Royce, leans…

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Hunting for Hermits

By Jack El-Hai | May 16, 2014 |
A nineteenth-century Szechuan hermit

How do you track down a bunch of hermits to interview? I recently needed an answer to that question when an editor at The Saturday Evening Post asked me to write…

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