Mariño reflects on how we remember Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who died poor, blind and forgotten, and has been reduced to a giraffe story that is compulsively repeated every time someone tries to explain his ideas.

The violent crimes committed by ordinary people are, in most cases, the result of the so-called affective aggression.

Humans are born rather undeveloped, compared to other species, which favours a better understanding of language and behaviour in society.

The so-called basic emotions offer a quick and essentially automatic response to certain situations in life. All of them have their own evolutionary function, for example, fear keeps us away from certain dangers, and anger alerts us to a threat.

The process that takes place when we cook on a barbecue is very similar to the one that occurs in our organism when we eat and digest food.

The next time you find yourself near a barbecue, try to pay attention to what you see. It is a fascinating scientific process.

Associating feelings of pleasure with dopamine us a common mistake. The process involves many other elements. Humans permanently seek pleasure and the continuous generation of expectations, surprise, and desire.

Tactile memory allows us to create images in our brain thanks to the relative positions of fingers and hands.

We cannot assume that our Palaeolithic ancestors possessed cognitive capacities typical of the modern mind.

Some mammals experience a feeling of soft pain when tasting fruits with capsaicin. This mutation has survived with the evolution of mammals.