Meat machines

Here’s a headline that caught my attention this morning: “The biology of altruism: Good deeds may be rooted in the brain.” And here’s a reader comment posted to the same page:  “Our behavior comes from our BRAINS? Whoodathunkit?” Georgetown University researcher Abigail Marsh, whose study is cited in the story, says she’s discovered that people with larger amygdalas are more likely to do extraordinary […]