If you take this approach to its logical conclusion, it becomes revolutionary. Essentially, this is an argument for rigorous history; rigorous history depends on rigorous real-time reporting; rigorous real-time reporting hurts the near-term narrative on which much of what we call progress depends. Good luck getting that off the ground. It's not that I wouldn't like to see what the world would look like if curious, courageous, patient honesty were the cultural norm - only that it's very hard to see that world from where we are.
Persons with severe brain injury who are behaviorally unresponsive to commands show brain activation on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or electroencephalography (EEG) when presented with cognitive tasks, such as motor imagery commands. The failure to identify such cognitive-motor dissociation in patients with disorders of consciousness could affect decisions regarding the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, goals of care, and clinical management.
Most of the genes are very ancient, tracing back to the dawn of animal evolution. These genes are not specific to humans or primates but are conserved even in distantly related species and perform basic biological functions, especially in brain development.
I have noticed on multiple occassions that under conditions of extreme exertion (i.e., exceeding my textbook maximum heart rate), I get pain in my mouth, almost like every tooth has an infected cavity. I had always just found it an interesting effect. But, in reading this, I presume that elite athletes are in such states far more often than I, and that whatever the underlying mechanism is that causes the pain might also be deteriorating the dental health. I've never been able to find a plausible explanation of the effect that tracks with my actual circumstances (i.e., as far as my dentist and I can tell, I have excellent dental health, but I am not an elite athlete, just a weekend warrior who sometimes overdoes it).
Now that you've realized all this, you could do something about it. Being a butcher in a slaughterhouse could become one of the things you used to do before you decided to do something else.
So, I tried to track down an answer. And, apparently, there’s currently no well-replicated study showing true contagious yawning in a species that is otherwise non-social and non-bonding.
I think you're onto something here. Does anyone know if there are examples of very non-social species yawning (i.e., something that has a brief mating period with no prolonged pair bonding, and then it lays eggs and takes off)?