This project develops a theoretical biological framework explaining how diet, endocannabinoid modulation, and natural psychoplastogens shape human empathy toward companion animals, particularly dogs and cats. The model integrates evolutionary biology, affective neuroscience, and phenomenological evidence to propose that humans and dogs share a foundation of parallel facultative carnivory, which...
This project develops a full systems biology framework for understanding environmental, endogenous, and synthetic psychedelics as adaptive plasticity modulators that recalibrate biological and psychological set points across multiple levels of organisation. It brings together natural compounds from plants, fungi, and animals, endogenous trace amines, synthetic psychedelics, dissociatives,...