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UNIKE PHYSICS. “Molecular biology is unquestionably a highly theoretical field or group of fields. It is safe to say that molecular biologists deal in large part with distinctly theoretical entities. Yet, I hold, controversially, the view that molecular biology contains no centrally unifying theory.” https://lnkd.in/eHuXs6h9 View in LinkedIn

MOTHER QUASAR. “SMSS J2157 is the most luminous known quasar, with a 3000 Å luminosity of (4.7 ± 0.5) × 10(47)  erg s−1 and an estimated bolometric luminosity of 1.6 × 10(48) erg s−1, yet its Eddington ratio is only ∼0.4. Thus, the high luminosity of this quasar is a consequence of its extremely large BH – one of the most massive BHs at z > 4.” (BH = black hole). https://lnkd.in/eU2xwdUN View in LinkedIn

THE MOTHER QUASAR. “A thirty-four billion solar mass black hole in SMSS J2157–3602, the most luminous known quasar.” https://lnkd.in/eU2xwdUN View in LinkedIn

LUMINOUS QUASARS. “A Closer Look at Two of the Most Luminous Quasars in the Universe. Ultraluminous quasars (M1450 ≤ −29) provide us with a rare view into the nature of the most massive and most rapidly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs). these two quasars provide support for theories that explain the existence of billion solar mass SMBHs ~700 million years after the Big Bang by moderate super-Eddington growth from standard SMBH seeds.” https://lnkd.in/ewtq3S5s View in LinkedIn

MULTIFUNCTIONAL. “Language processing does not appear to be highly compartmentalized into unique circuits independent of those serving other behavioral functions but instead depends heavily on the integration of a large number of abilities that are processed in widely dispersed circuits across the brain.” https://lnkd.in/dvz_XvBp View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT GIANT BLACK HOLES. “Observations of the most luminous quasars at redshift z > 6 reveal the existence of numerous supermasssive black holes (>19(9)M⊙) already in place about 12 billion years ago.” https://lnkd.in/dHcpNrnR View in LinkedIn

EXAPTATION OF CIRCUITS. “Even if language evolved to use circuits not originally linguistic in function, these hijacked circuits would likely also represent modifications of nonhuman-specific circuitry. Thus, studying brain and behavior in nonhuman primates is actually central to understanding human language evolution.” https://lnkd.in/dvz_XvBp View in LinkedIn

SURPRISE FINDING. “We further find that for similar range of halo masses at z = 8, the halo masses of the low-redshift descendants of the least massive high-redshift black holes at z = 0 have a distribution similar to those of the descendants of most massive high-redshift black holes. Consistent with our results…the most luminous quasars do not live in the most massive haloes.” https://lnkd.in/dX4w36NJ View in LinkedIn

RECENT ADVANCES. “In the last decade a new synthesis of modern linguistics, cognitive neuroscience and neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory has begun to make important contributions to our understanding of the biology and evolution of language.” https://lnkd.in/dTkGwcGB View in LinkedIn

STAR GENEOLOGY. “Our main finding is that the rare quasars with the most massive black holes do not have the most massive low-redshift descendants.” https://lnkd.in/dX4w36NJ View in LinkedIn