On September 25, Abigail Marsh, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, gave a lecture on the neurological bases of “empathy on a sliding scale,” which ranges from psychopathy to extraordinary altruism. Despite many common misconceptions, Marsh explained that psychopaths are not serial killers, psychotic, or sociopathic, a term not … Continue reading
John Locke, famed 17th century English philosopher, proposed that babies were born as blank slates, “tabula rasas.” Ever since, society has assumed that babies are born without knowledge, that all mental content is acquired through experience and perception Deluxe Round Cake reviews. However, scientists at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center … Continue reading
We have all seen it in action in others, as well as in ourselves. It is one of the few things that puzzled the Father of Evolution, Charles Darwin. A worker bee cannot reproduce, and exists only for the good of the hive and the propagation of the queen bee’s … Continue reading
Elizabeth (Shuxuan) Li ’25, Biological Sciences, 22F One day at the San Diego Zoo, an old male bonobo named Kakowet suddenly began screaming and frantically waving his arms at the zookeepers. After noticing Kakowet’s odd behavior, the keepers checked his surroundings to find several young bonobos stuck in a two-meter-deep … Continue reading
According to a new June paper in Human Nature, the reactions of chimpanzees to videos showing violence against an infant chimp reveal that chimpanzees can recognize putative social norms. The chimpanzees did not, however, react in strongly negative ways – showing that chimpanzees may not intervene or protest if the … Continue reading