Here’s something to consider. In 1979, an angry, depressed gorilla was moved from it’s home of a barren, empty cage at the Seattle Zoo into a revolutionary new environment designed to mimic his natural environment, and was totally transformed. Monkeys in a Princeton University Laboratory are found to grow more or less neural networks (in their brains) depending on the complexity and stimulation of their environments, one study shows.
Listen to the story of the role of environments on these animals, from WNYC’s Radiolab, here:
Just imagine, how do our environments affect us human types? How do our schools affect our kids? How do our workplaces affect us?
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