We already knew that humans, great apes, and dolphins are able to recognize themselves in the mirror. Usually, the rest of higher mammals or other animals think the image in the glass belongs to another individual (if they understand the…
Month: October 2006
The knowledge we currently have about the human brain is comparable to the knowledge about the Universe we had in Galileo’s time, said the Novel Prize Torsten Wiesel during a meeting in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Mr. Wiesel argues that plasticity…
In the context of evolutionary computing it is very interesting to know that from October 2006 the University of Cambridge offers the complete work of Charles Darwin online at darwin-online.org.uk. The site contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and…