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First, social, and hence brain, evolution may have been driven mainly by female interests.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
The barnyard chickens studied by naturalist Schjelderup-Ebbe had their periods of peace, but they never had equality.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Out of this integrated approach to knowledge sprang Humboldt’s revolutionary view of life — the scientifically informed counterpart to Ada Lovelace’s famous assertion that “everything is naturally related and interconnected.”
Humboldt revolutionized the way we see the natural world. He found connections everywhere. Nothing, not even the tiniest orga... See more
Humboldt revolutionized the way we see the natural world. He found connections everywhere. Nothing, not even the tiniest orga... See more
Alexander von Humboldt • Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
“It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ,” said the esteemed neurologist Roger Bannister,
Steven D. Levitt • Think Like a Freak
as Darwin himself understood, webs of collaboration and open exchange have always been central to evolutionary progress, never more so than in the history of our intensely social species.
Steven Johnson • Future Perfect
Perception Space—The Final Frontier,” by Lars Chittka and Axel Brockmann, PLoS Biology 3 (2005), no.