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New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

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For most of human history, consciousness has been something that scientists have talked around. It hasn’t really been ...

Note: The authors and contributors to this statement had initially envisioned that it would be published as an official statement from the Society for the ...

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.