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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Danielle McNally, Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Michelle Dean, and John Knight.

When a queen bee dies, both her subjects and her beekeeper need to process the loss.

When a queen bee dies on a Brooklyn rooftop, an amateur beekeeper follows (and meddles with) the bumpy succession process.

This week we’re sharing stories by Jason Fagone, Betty Ann Adam, Christian H. Cooper, Clarissa Wei, and Robert Kolker.

The emerging science of epigenetics argues that poverty can change our genetic expression.

The emerging science of epigenetics takes the concepts of “meritocracy” and “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” to task.

Scientists are taking a second look at the effect of cooperation on evolution.

How willpower — and its absence — turned from a moral and religious concept to a controversial scientific one.

Matthew Berger explores the evolution and the history of salmon aquaculture for Nautilus.

Revel in all the feels with these 14 (get it?) essays and interviews.