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General topics

•  Animal [r]: A multicellular organism that feeds on other organisms, and is distinguished from plants, fungi, and unicellular organisms. ^[e]
•  Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). ^[e]
•  Atmosphere [r]: The layers of gas surrounding stars and planets. ^[e]
•  Atom [r]: The defining unit of chemical elements. ^[e]
• Applied cognitive science [r]: The use of neuroscientific insights in non-neuroscientific environments, particularly in management and politics. ^[e]
•  Biolinguistics [r]: An interdisciplinary field that explores human natural language’s fundamental properties, development in individuals, use in thinking and communicating, brain implementation, genetic underpinnings, and evolutionary origins. ^[e]
•  Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
• Biomineralisation [r]: The study of minerals produced or maintained by biological systems. ^[e]
•  Biomusicology [r]: The study of biological aspects of music perception and production. ^[e]
•  Bionics [r]: The application of biological principles in technical design. ^[e]
• Biophysical economics [r]: The study of economic systems as a kind of metabolism, using biophysical methods from biological thermodynamics and ecology. ^[e]
•  Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. ^[e]
• Biosphere [r]: The entirety of places on Earth inhabited by living organisms. ^[e]
•  Biotechnology [r]: The application of biological principles in industrial production ^[e]
•  Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
•  Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e]
•  Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e]
•  Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. ^[e]
•  Brain plasticity [r]: The ability of the brain to adapt to new situations, e.g. by learning or neurogenesis. ^[e]
•  Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. ^[e]
• Coevolution [r]: Multi-generation interactions between different species, e.g. as prey and preditor, flower and insect. ^[e]
• Cold hardiness [r]: The ability of an organism to survive temperatures below the melting point of water, i.e. at 0°C or less (at sea level). ^[e]
•  Comparative biology [r]: The study of life across species. ^[e]
• Comparative physiology [r]: The study of biochemical and biophysical processes of tissues across species. ^[e]
•  Computer [r]: A machine that executes a sequence of instructions. ^[e]
•  Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. ^[e]
•  Creative Commons [r]: A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enabling the sharing of the digital heritage of humanity. ^[e]
•  Cryopreservation [r]: A process where cells or whole tissues are preserved by cooling to low sub-zero temperatures. ^[e]
•  Disease [r]: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. ^[e]
• Earth [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Ecosystem [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Encyclopedia [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Entrainment (biomusicology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Environmental economics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ethnomusicology [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Evolutionary biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Evolutionary medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Evolutionary psychology [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Fossils [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Gyrification [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Molecule [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Mathematics [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Music perception [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Music psychology [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Neuroimaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neuroinformatics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Open access [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Open data [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Open knowledge [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Open science [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Origin of life [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Physics [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Physiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Research [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Science 2.0 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Science Commons [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Schizophrenia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shape description [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Steady-state economy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sustainability [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sustainable science [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Vocal learning [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Wiki [r]: Add brief definition or description

Biophysical methods

• Computational morphometry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dielectrophoresis [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Electrorotation [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Optical Tweezers [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Patch clamp [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Scanning electron microscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Transmission electron microscopy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• UV Laser ablation [r]: Add brief definition or description

Organisms

Unicellular organisms

• Chlamydomonas nivalis [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Escherichia coli [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Saccharomyces cerevisiae [r]: Add brief definition or description

Plants

• Myrothamnus labellifolia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pararaucaria patagonica [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Solidago (genus) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Invertebrates

• Belemnitella sumensis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Belemnopsis (genus) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gonioteuthis quadrata [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Isselicrinus buchii [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tardigrada (phylum) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Insects

• Attacus atlas [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bombyx mori [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Epiblema scudderiana [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Eurosta solidaginis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Locusta migratoria [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Samia cynthia [r]: Add brief definition or description

Vertebrates

• Atocetus (genus) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Elephas maximus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hydrolagus colliei [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mus musculus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phoca vitulina [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Protopterus sp. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rattus norvegicus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Xenopus laevis [r]: Add brief definition or description

Primates

• Cebus apella [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cebus atys [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Homo sapiens sapiens [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gorilla gorilla [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hylobates lar [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Macaca mulatta [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pan paniscus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pan troglodytes [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Papio cynocephalus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pongo pygmaeus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Saimiri sciureus [r]: Add brief definition or description

Further topics

See Supplement.