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Empathy and Pain in the Evolution of our Social Brains

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

My first mouse of the day was called “LG1202”. Had I met this mouse in a different time, maybe found him in a pet store or in my back yard, this wouldn’t have been the name I’d chosen for him. To me, he was more of a “Peanut” or “Potato”, something to match his compact, doughy little body and his big wet inquisitive eyes. He didn’t look like an “LG1202”. No one really looks like an…