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04/29/2001 Archived Entry: "Lectures"

As it turned out, the two other lectures I had were pretty good. The Evolution and Behaviour lecture was extremely interesting, talking about the encephalisation quotient (nice word, I'll have to use it again sometime) in primates, how the extra energy demands are sustained (by eating high-energy fruits instead of foliage) and its effects on social behaviour, cognition and so on. It's a shame the lecturer had to fit it all in 50 minutes.

Perhaps an even more impressive endorsement of the lecture was that I only went to sleep twice during it, and then only for a total of ten seconds - a personal record for me during E&B lectures, I might add. It's not that I find E&B lectures boring, far from it. It's something about the layout of the room, the staggered chairs and low lighting.

Anyhow, hopefully I'll learn more about this stuff in neurobiology next year.

My Physiology lecture was also very interesting - in fact, there was enough interesting stuff in it for me to write up segments of it properly in tomorrow's post.