It is 2017. A 26-year-old me was exploring New York City for the very first time. As a biological anthropologist, I had a strong desire to visit the Bronx Zoo. On that hot summer afternoon at the beginning of September, I headed directly to the Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit. Despite…

We sleep a third of our lives. Sleep is a crucial brain activity that makes cognition, memory, and learning possible. But we are not the only ones. All animals, from elephants to butterflies, sleep. …

The founding father of modern biology, Charles Darwin, once said that “the difference in mental states between animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of a kind” (Darwin, 1888). A peculiar group of animals, cephalopods (comprising octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses) are an ancient clade…