Review of Robert Sapolsky's texts

[anhinga_anhinga]

http://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."

Comments

Re: Totally off-top

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

It's not always so very difficult to implement :-)

Re: Totally off-top

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rowan_tree_/]

It may even be easier than to interpret your sentence above :-)

Re: Totally off-top

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

This depends on the interpretation of my sentence above :-)

Re: Totally off-top

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rowan_tree_/]

Is there "the" interpretation? Otherwise it doesn't ;-)

Re: Totally off-top

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

an interpretation ;-)

it's a parameter, on which "it" (the simplicity of the imlementation of [...]) depends...