Dan Falk
‘Language Puzzle’: Exploring the mystery of how humans learned to communicate
According to Guinness World Records, the world’s fastest talker is one Sean Shannon, capable of unleashing a staggering 665 English words per minute ...
Consciousness: More than nothing is going on in the mind of a bees and other animals
In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing ...
‘We are machines—but astoundingly complex ones’: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on how human consciousness evolved
Daniel Dennett believed that we are, in a sense, machines—but astoundingly complex ones, the result of millions of years of ...
If we ever encounter extraterrestrial life, here’s why they might not seem so alien
[University of Cambridge Professor Arik Kershenbaum] argues that evolution is a universal law of nature, like gravity — and that ...
‘We humans might never have evolved’: Chance is the central narrative of human evolution
Prince Hamlet spent a lot of time pondering the nature of chance and probability in William Shakespeare’s tragedy. In the ...
Exploring the uneasy relationship between Charles Darwin and his skeptical publisher
Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution shook up Britain’s Victorian establishment upon the release of On the Origin of Species, the 1859 ...