Curiously, researchers are pretty sure it was a parasite but what it is, apart from that, remains elusive. It’s an unusual case of knowing more about the organism’s behavior than about the organism itself.
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Parasites as “invisible designers” of the human brain
Apparently, design is okay if microbes do it: It seems so obvious that someone should have thought of it decades ago: Since parasites have plagued eukaryotic life for millions of years, their prevalence likely affected evolution. Psychologist Marco Del Giudice of the University of New Mexico is not the first researcher to suggest that the Read More…