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Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant
| Dec 1, 2015
| 3 min read
Welcome to the Microbiome, The Paradox of Evolution, Newton's Apple,
and
Dawn of the Neuron.
Book Excerpt from
When Brains Dream
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra
| Dec 1, 2020
| 8 min read
Ferreting out the biological function of dreaming is a frontier in neuroscience.
Book Excerpt from
Feeling & Knowing
Antonio Damasio
| Nov 1, 2021
| 4 min read
In Chapter 1, “On Being,” author Antonio Damasio outlines the dawn of consciousness.
Opinion: What Animals Can Teach Us About Fear
Daniel T. Blumstein
| Oct 1, 2020
| 3 min read
Fear binds us to our human and nonhuman ancestors. Understanding the emotion can help us grapple with challenges we face today.
Mutation Linked to Difference Between Human and Neanderthal Brains
Dan Robitzski
| Sep 9, 2022
| 5 min read
A single amino acid substitution in a protein causes increased neuron production in the frontal lobes of humans compared to Neanderthals—a tiny difference that could have given our species a cognitive edge, researchers say.
Book Excerpt from
The Nature of Fear
Daniel T. Blumstein
| Oct 21, 2020
| 4 min read
In the book’s prologue, author Daniel T. Blumstein explains his introduction to the study of fear.
Reimagining Humanity
Ian Tattersall
| Jun 1, 2015
| 3 min read
As the science of paleoanthropology developed, human evolutionary trees changed as much as the minds that constructed them.
Could a Less Complex Larynx Have Enabled Speech in Humans?
Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD
| Aug 11, 2022
| 4 min read
A paper argues that the evolutionary loss of a thin vocal membrane in the larynx may have facilitated oral communication.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant
| Mar 1, 2016
| 3 min read
Herding Hemingway's Cats, Hair: A Human History, Restless Creatures,
and
The Mind Club
Embryonic Evolution Through Ernst Haeckel’s Eyes
Diana Kwon
| May 1, 2017
| 2 min read
The 19th century biologist’s drawings, tainted by scandal, helped bolster, then later dismiss, his biogenetic law.
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