A Little More Than Kin – Richard Powers

As part of a new Emergence series, we’re publishing a selection of
essays from Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations—a
five-volume collection edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall
Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer—including this poignant essay from
Richard Powers. Richard is the author of twelve novels, including
the newly released Bewilderment, and The Overstory, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. In this essay, as he reflects on whether
there is a genetic basis for altruism, Richard arrives at story as
the vehicle through which human beings can find kinship with other
creatures—recognizing and remembering our shared narrative in the
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