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I'm glad you asked! The two fields are really quite different, but I think people get them confused since the terms both make reference to physics and something vaguely mental.
Psychophysics is basically the measurement of subjective percepts corresponding to physical stimuli (e.g. measuring pain thresholds or visual acuity). So here the 'physics' refers ...
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Neurobiology and Evolution are not exactly my field of expertise, but I'll try to answer anyway.
Are there any neurotransmitters that appeared only in human evolution history?
Probably not. The common human neurotransmitters we know of, are also found in other animals. More surprisingly, most of them are also found in organisms with no nervous-system, ...
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