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News of wars, polarizing politics and other sharp divisions sometimes makes it seem like humans don't agree about much. But there's at least one thing almost everyone seems to see eye to eye about: losing one is very costly.

That's right, across space, time and legal cultures, people tend to agree about the value of body parts, according to Yunsuh Nike Wee and Daniel Sznycer of Oklahoma State University and Jaimie Arona Krems of the University of California, Los Angeles. In one of last week's most popular stories, the three psychologists describe their new study, which shows that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature. The laws they studied range from "an eye for an eye" to workers' compensation.

They also conducted a survey of more than 600 people in India and the U.S. on the value of different body parts. "Our findings were striking," they write. "The more highly American laypeople tended to value a given body part, the more valuable this body part seemed also to Indian laypeople, to American, Korean and Emirati lawmakers" and even English and Swedish legal codes from the Middle Ages.

I don't want to give it all away, so if you want to know which body parts were consistently given the highest values, check out the fascinating story.