Tag: Scientific American
Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth
The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.”
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism, Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind”
Is it true that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait?
Forrest Mims on Winning the Rolex Award (And How You Can Too!)
By the early 1990s, Mims had built a reputation as one of America’s foremost citizen scientists.
Scientists Ask: Does the Soul Survive Death?
Gradually, medical findings about what happens to the mind around the time of death are undermining assumptions that the soul dies with the body.