Review of Robert Sapolsky's texts
Nov. 7th, 2005 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anhinga_anhingahttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06shreeve.html
"In "Bugs in the Brain," he describes a parasite that infects the brains of rats without any effect on their behavior except that they lose their instinctual aversion to the smell of cats and, instead, are drawn to it. Needless to say, such absurdly obliging prey is quickly gobbled up: bad for the rat but great for the parasite, since it can only reproduce inside a cat host."
"In "Bugs in the Brain," he describes a parasite that infects the brains of rats without any effect on their behavior except that they lose their instinctual aversion to the smell of cats and, instead, are drawn to it. Needless to say, such absurdly obliging prey is quickly gobbled up: bad for the rat but great for the parasite, since it can only reproduce inside a cat host."
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Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 05:55 pm (UTC)Did it send you its copy?
Gluchit :-(
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:09 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:13 pm (UTC)I've got it finally, but there was a delay, so that they were even not in order...
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:14 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:17 pm (UTC)Perhaps, I was more important that myself :-)
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:21 pm (UTC)Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:22 pm (UTC)"My own two comments were sent not in order...
Perhaps I was more important than myself :-)"
Re: Totally off-top
Date: 2005-11-17 06:24 pm (UTC)