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A spider raised in complete isolation, having never seen another spider spin a web, will still build one, geometrically precise and structurally soun

Emotions feel deeply personal and immediate, but underneath that subjective experience is a fairly well-characterized biological system: specific bra

For a long time, the working assumption in biology was that complex problem-solving required a large, primate-like brain. That assumption has collaps

For much of the twentieth century, neuroscientists assumed the adult brain was essentially fixed, its circuitry wired during development and largely

There's no single place in the brain where a memory sits waiting to be retrieved, and no biological equivalent of a hard drive sector storing it inta

Mammals are defined by two features almost every species shares: nursing offspring with milk, and investing heavily in parental care after birth.