What makes the human brain special? It's not the time it takes to mature, according to new research. Scientists report the human frontal cortex, the part of the brain involved in higher-level thinking and reasoning, follows ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2021
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Story time took on a whole new twist in a recent study by UTM psychology professor Samuel Ronfard.
Education
Apr 12, 2021
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One of the best ways to study human evolution is by comparing us with nonhuman species that, evolutionarily speaking, are closely related to us. That closeness can help scientists narrow down precisely what makes us human, ...
Biotechnology
Mar 17, 2021
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A team led by Prof. Su Bing from the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prof. Li Cheng from Peking University, and Prof. Zhang Shihua from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science ...
Evolution
Jan 28, 2021
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Research on the lamprey brain has enabled researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden to push the birth of the cortex back in time by some 300 million years to over 500 million years ago, providing new insights into brain ...
Evolution
Mar 16, 2020
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We are closer to understanding the incredible ability of squid to instantly camouflage themselves thanks to research from The University of Queensland.
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2020
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Longevity genes that helped humans survive ancient airborne toxins may be the same genes that make humans resilient to pollution from fossil fuels and cigarette smoke today, according to a study published in the December ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 25, 2019
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For most frogs, motherhood begins and ends with the release of hundreds of eggs into a sizable body of water and then hopping or swimming away.
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2019
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The human brain is about three times the size of the brains of great apes. This has to do, among other things, with the evolution of novel brain structures that enabled complex behaviors such as language and tool production. ...
Evolution
Oct 15, 2019
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Communication gestures used by humans and our primate relatives are providing clues about how our species' ability to use spoken language evolved.
Evolution
Aug 20, 2019
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