According to what remains of contemporary anthropocentrism, the human brain is made up of three superimposed anatomical sections (theory of the “tripartite” brain elaborated by Paul Donald MacLean in 1973) each pertaining to behavioural faculties of increasing sophistication and complexity. The linear evolutionary development from vertebrates to the human brain does however “forget” flight mammals such as bats or water mammals such as dolphins. Adaptation into such differentiated ecological niches in fact results in a diversification of central nervous systems and sensory faculties. This points to the human brain having a very different natural history.

Enrico Alleva, ethologist, he directed the Reference Center for Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Perfecting at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, he was a professor of Ethology at the Faculty of Biology of "Sapienza" University of Rome. Academician of the Lincei, of the Medical Academy of Rome and of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, he sits on the Scientific Council of the Treccani Encyclopedia.
He is the author of Il tacchino termostatico (Theoria, 1990), Consigli a un giovane etologo with N. Tiliacos (Muzzio, 2003) and La mente animale (Codice, 2020).

Daniela Santucci, psychobiologist, she is first researcher at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Member of the National Commission for Antarctic Studies, he was a member of the Commission for the Dissemination of Scientific and Technological Culture, Miur.

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