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dolphins do not have a general rightward asymmetry after all.
People often think that scientific progress happens when we learn something new that we didn’t know before. But another kind of scientific progress happens when we realize that there is a problem with the way we’ve been looking at things all along. In those cases, figuring out a different way of looking can lead to seeing things more clearly. And as science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once pointed out, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’”
This is an opinion and analysis article.
