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“But who knows the temporal dimensions of the forest? History is not enough. We should have to know how the forest experiences its great age; why, in the reign of the imagination, there are no young forests.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1957, as translated by M. Jolas, 1994, Beacon Press.
The cooperative eye hypothesis is the basis of one of the debates on human exceptionalism that has animated science for several decades. Among mammals, and a fortiori the great primates, we are the only ones who can look at one another, as the adage goes, in the whites of the eyes. The human sclera is unique in the depigmentation that lends it its white color and its large size. Contrast with it gives our irises a singular presence. One of the reasons for this evolution could be the importance of the movement of our eyes in nonverbal communication. Another reason could be the incomprehensible randomness of evolution. By standing out clearly inside the...More
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“But who knows the temporal dimensions of the forest? History is not enough. We should have to know how the forest experiences its great age; why, in the reign of the imagination, there are no young forests.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1957, as translated by M. Jolas, 1994, Beacon Press.
The cooperative eye hypothesis is the basis of one of the debates on human exceptionalism that has animated science for several decades. Among mammals, and a fortiori the great primates, we are the only ones who can look at one another, as the adage goes, in the whites of the eyes. The human sclera is unique in the depigmentation that lends it its white color and its large size. Contrast with it gives our irises a singular presence. One of the reasons for this evolution could be the importance of the movement of our eyes in nonverbal communication. Another reason could be the incomprehensible randomness of evolution. By standing out clearly inside the...More