Few areas of neurobehavioral research seemed more promising in the early sixties than that investigating the relationship between protein synthesis and learning.
Chimps and children, gulls and Greeks—the ethnologists to their merry way, comparing bits of human cultural behavior with bits of genetically programmed animal behavior.
It has long been known that the rate of oxidative metabolism (the process that uses oxygen to convert food into energy) in any animal has a profound effect on its living patterns.
