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Showing posts with label Evolution of behavior and the brain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evolution of behavior and the brain. Show all posts
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Killing giants, myth busting and other valiant deeds (Books - The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing & Reading in the Brain)

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I just came across two excerpts in Richard Dawkins's collection of science writing that reminded me what gives me pleasure about re...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Mind and brain - partners in movement (Books - i of the vortex by Rodolfo Llinas)

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Rodolfo Llinas's 2001 book, i of the vortex attempts to bridge our knowledge about the concepts of mind and self and our knowledge a...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Silver Lining?

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Jonah Lehrer has an excellent article in today's New York Times Magazine about a new way that a psychiatrist and an evolutionary psych...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

The music of our brain (Film - The Music Instinct & Book - Rhythms of the Brain by Gyorgy Buzsaki)

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Typically, the new year is rung in here with friends and fondue but The Ragazzo has been so sick that he was in bed and I celebrated by doin...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

It's all about protein

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It's not the number of neurons that increase the computing power of a particular species' brain, and hence the potential complexity ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The roots of communication are the roots of esthetics

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Natalie Angier muses today in the Science Times about art - from whence it came and why. Is it the product of oversized brains that have...
Thursday, August 9, 2007

Smart is the new Sexy! (The evolution of behavior and the brain)

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Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption From The Economist Hat tip: 3 Quarks Daily GEOFFREY MILLER is a man with a theory that, if t...