Kester Brewin

Very interesting feature in the journal Nature (article here; podcast here) about new research that shows that chimps have absolutely no altruistic bones in their bodies. Given carefully constructed opportunities to do a friend a favour… they just didn’t. This research doesn’t, of course, prove that true altruism exists in humankind. Many would say it [...]

It seems that my hunch about the link between sleep and our complex/emergent brains was right, at least according to this article in The Guardian today. In an article I wrote some time back, I expanded on this a little more, but to summarize: It is when we sleep that our brains do the ‘post-processing’ [...]