(1) it's pretty advanced at points. Having a degree in any science discipline will really help you appreciate the book.
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I really enjoyed the chapters on smell and DNA replication in particular. I also like the fact that it is very well referenced throughout.
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the chapter on the magnetic sensing capability of birds is pretty good too.
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(3) if you have a degree in physics, then you can skim/skip the first 100 pages because they just introduce quantum mechanical phenomena
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Just curious but do they propose olfaction is quantum? I thought that was bunk.
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Not as such. IIRC (I read it in May) it was a combination of various mechanisms and they were discussing where QM could play a role
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Ah, so they propose the theory that's tested here? https://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v7/n4/full/nn1215.html …
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Link to QM might not be "proved" as you say, but it's been tested. And the results were it's not really supported by the evidence, AFAIK!
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Interesting they propose it given the inconclusive/degenerate nature of the hypothesis, I wonder why...
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yeah they have a fair bit of discussion on this actually. They reference this 2011 paper. http://www.pnas.org/content/108/9/3797.full …
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