Description Experimental evolution of human cognition helps us understand ourselves In 1887, in an upstairs room in a secondary school in Sheffield, England, a fire broke out. The fire at… Click to show full abstract
Description Experimental evolution of human cognition helps us understand ourselves In 1887, in an upstairs room in a secondary school in Sheffield, England, a fire broke out. The fire at Wesley College engulfed a custom-built incubator that had housed thousands of generations of a population of unicellular organisms. Every evening for 7 years, the incubator’s temperature had been carefully increased by the diligent amateur scientist and school governor, William Henry Dallinger.
               
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