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POPSThe Wow unit :) When they showed the videos to human volunteers, their eye movements correlated with what the computer had rated as being worthy of attention. "We found that human observers did indeed look at surprising things while watching TV, much more than they looked at information-rich objects"
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POPSStorytelling is a carrier "Maybe storytelling - from TV to folk tales - actually serves some specific evolutionary function," says Gottschall. "They're not just by-products of evolutionary adaptation."
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POPSHow did the zebra get his stripes? And to summarize it: "Astonishingly, the functional significance of pelage coloration in most large charismatic black and white mammals that were new to science 150 years ago still remains a mystery."