Mind Matters
Viewpoint: Zombie pseudoscience — Evolution and intelligence studies are still shadowed by a focus on brain size
Phrenology is the detailed study of cranial sizes and shapes as a proxy for brain size and shape... Phrenology has ...
Altruism in animals: Why do animals sometimes adopt other species’ unrelated orphans?
Animals don’t have reason or moral accountability but there is abundant evidence that mammals and birds have feelings. And feelings ...
Pop psychology and the myth of the ‘lizard brain’
“As a neuroscientist, I see scientific myths about the brain repeated regularly in the media and corners of academic research,” ...
Some birds are quite smart but do they really ‘think like humans’?
[B]road claims for animal intelligence that go well beyond problem-solving abilities are often questionable. Consider, for example, the mirror test ...
