It's the question that Charles Darwin himself could not answer: What makes human interaction so unique? In their new book, Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe, Stony Brook University colleagues, collaborators, and researchers Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza argue that humans are unique among all animals for a single, simple reason: our ability to manage conflicts of interest. This exclusive capacity is at the core of this far-reaching theory of everything human.