Epistemological Modesty, my friend. Epistemological Modesty!
Beautiful list and stupid me, I thought we knew the answers to a few of these questions and some, I didn't even know it was a "question".
There are so many unknown questions about animals and biology in general than physics. I am glad that many minds are working on these.
- How did the first Indigenous people enter the Americas? - Michael Waters, geoarchaeologist, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University
- A million years ago, how did earlier human species colonize remote and previously uninhabited islands in Southeast Asia? - Adam Brumm, archaeologist, Griffith University, Australia
- What kind of information — about people, places and other dogs can dogs acquire through smell - Alexandra Horowitz, cognitive scientist, Dog Cognition Lab, Barnard College
- How do birds migrate with such energy efficiency? - David Lentink, engineer and biologist, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- How many undiscovered animal species live in the deep sea, and do they matter? - Lisa Levin, marine ecologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
- Which other animals dream, and how similar are their dreams to ours? - Benjamin Scott, neuroscientist, Boston University
- Why do animals that fly live longer? - Elinor Karlsson, vertebrate geneticist, UMass Chan Medical School and Broad Institute
- Why are humans the only species with a chin? - Daniel Lieberman, evolutionary biologist, Harvard University
- How did the building blocks of life, like proteins and nucleic acid, first organize into a living cell? - Steve Brusatte, paleontologist, University of Edinburgh
- When does a cell become destined to develop into cancer? - Dr. Kimryn Rathmell, physician-scientist, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
- Blue whales are the biggest animals ever to exist on Earth. Where are their babies born? - Helen Scales, marine biologist
- Most cancers are not genetic, so why do they occur? - Dr. Mehra Golshan, cancer surgeon, Yale School of Medicine
- Why does the immune system in some people, and not others, control cancers and viruses? - Dr. Sharon Lewin, infectious diseases physician, the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Why do the viruses that cause colds and flu spread so much more easily in winter? - Linsey Marr, environmental engineer, Virginia Tech
- Can we learn what emotions animals are experiencing? - Tom Smulders, evolutionary neuroscientist, Newcastle University, England
- Are we alone in the universe? - Robert Hazen, staff scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science
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