The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
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This book summarizes ten years of work that were first made possible thanks to the support and generosity of Roberto Lent, who arranged for an unprecedented position in science communication to open at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (which I filled), then invested in my crazy idea of turning brains into soup to find out what they were made of. We have since stopped collaborating, but he will always have my gratitude for setting me on my way.
Jon Kaas, Distinguished Centennial Professor at the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, entered my professional life and changed its course in 2006, when we started collaborating. Ever since, we meet a couple of times a year, in scientific meetings or visits to his lab in Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his charming wife, Barbara Martin, house me (their dining room table has seen many of my papers come to life), feed me (Jon makes a mean feijoada), and keep my heart and mind warm with friendship and conversation. People in the field often mistake him for my former advisor (which he never was, though it would have honored me), but the truth is he’s become so much more: Jon is a dear friend and a kind of scientific father to me, someone who decided to watch over me just because he could. Thank you, Jon, for everything.
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