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| | broadspeculations.com
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| | A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I'm speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn't really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at least no disadvantage) to the survival of the organism. Let's rephrase the question: what evolutionary...
| | labrat.fieldofscience.com
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| | A while ago, Angry by Choice wrote a post about a fungi that kills its nematode prey by making little lasso ropes to catch the worm in. At...
| | www.wiringthebrain.com
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| | Following a stimulating discussion with Jon Brock on the variability of the phenotype in autism and dyslexia, I thought...
| | pleiotropy.fieldofscience.com
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| [AI summary] The author introduces the concept of pleiotropy, a genetic phenomenon where one gene influences multiple traits, and directs readers to a list of their peer-reviewed papers.