She's faker than the plastic food in the pictures on the McDonald's menu.

Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life.

Wilson thinks today's eusocial species likely had ancestors similar to a Japanese stem-nesting xylocopine bee, Ceratina flavipes. Most of the time females make do on their own, but every once in a while, they pair up and divide the labor, setting the stage for a group to outdo individuals and for the tendency to form groups to be favored.

He and his business partner, Nur Ahmet Mahmut, 32, publish anything they can find, from Uighur history and literature to children’s stories and cookery books. They sell symbols of their hoped-for republic, East Turkestan — such as its sky blue flag with white crescent and star — items that are outlawed in China.