The editorial series Sinapsi [synapses] collects texts published in the journal Nodes since its foundation, as well as unpublished content. It delivers different writing forms: essays, interviews, scientific articles and of wide circulation. 

The intention is to make accessible to readers, on the one hand, contents that are no longer available and, on the other hand, topics and writing never published before.

ABSTRACT VOL. 8

The text published here is taken from the essay From Neurons to a Social Mind. A Darwinian point of view of the “Mirror Neuron System” published in 2012 in the journal Human Evolution. An International Journal. At a time when the debate on mirror neurons is rather lively, with positions for and against the discovery made by the Parma group, Alberto Oliverio and Alessandra Attanasio, outline, with extreme clarity, the potential of this research, interpreting it through a Darwinian perspective.