Modern neuroscience and the computational modeling of the activities of vast, integrated neural networks provide fruitful accounts of how our minds work and learn.

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For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Just over 60 years ago, scientist and conservationist Rachel Carson warned that modern societies were contaminating the ...