Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)

托马斯 萨顿多夫，澳大利亚昆士兰大学心理学教授，儿童和非人类灵长类动物认知发展方面的专家。萨顿多夫出生并成长于德国，现居澳大利亚布里斯班，对其研究工作的报道见诸《纽约时报》《科学》（Science）《发现》（Discover）等报刊媒体。

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians c...(展开全部)

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern t...(展开全部)

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.

"The Most Human Human" by Brian Christian is a mind-blowing piece of reportage that will appeal to readers of Jon Ronson's "The Psychopath Test", and an inspiring riposte to John Gray's classic "Straw Dogs" - a book that will change your whole understanding of what being human actually means...AI is on the brink of a new dawn. And so are we...Telling the difference between huma...(展开全部)

A fascinating and deeply researched investigation into the mysteries of flavor—from the first bite taken by our ancestors to scientific advances in taste and the current "foodie" revolution. Taste has long been considered the most basic of the five senses because its principal mission is a simple one: to discern food from everything else. Yet it's really the most complex and su...(展开全部)

“A fascinating blend of culinary history and the science of taste” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), from the first bite taken by our ancestors to ongoing scientific advances in taste and today’s “foodie” revolution. Can’t resist the creamy smoothness of butter? Blame Darwinian natural selection. Crave the immediate zing of sweets? They bathe your brain in a seductive high. ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·斯彭斯（Charles Spence）  搞笑诺贝尔营养学奖（获奖标准是“乍看之下令人发笑，其后又发人深省”的研究）得主  英国心理学会认知科技奖和实验心理学学会奖得主，被德国的亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会认可的年度欧洲年轻认知心理学家  牛津大学教授，牛津大学交叉模态实验室负责人，丰田、百事可乐、英国帝国化学工业集团等跨国公司顾问 查尔斯·斯彭斯是著名的美食物理学家、牛津大学交叉模态研究实验室的负责人，同时在产品的多感观设计、包装和品牌创建方面为众多跨国公司提供建议。其实验“听觉对调节薯片的酥脆和新鲜度的作用”，第一次成功证明我们可以根据声音的变化判断食物新鲜度。这项研究为他赢得了2008年搞笑诺贝尔奖。另外，他与别人合著的《完美膳食》也在2015年荣获“美国出版商杰出专业暨学术写作奖”。 斯彭斯曾多次接受《时代周刊》《华尔街日报》《纽约...(展开全部)