As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes biology conservative evolution
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. Gero Miesenbock activitybrainforce Change image and share on social
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously. Gero Miesenbock animalbraincrude Change image and share on social
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly. Gero Miesenbock evaporateexhilaratefind share on social
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. Jerry Saltz acuteartistartschwager share on social
There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages. Ann Nocenti amazebookchinese share on social
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology. Jeremy Rifkin agebiologychemistry Change image and share on social