Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334991-100-why-did-humans-evolve-big-brains-a-new-idea-bodes-ill-for-our-future/?utm_source=nsnew&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nsnew_110724&utm_term=Newsletter%20NSNEW_Weekly
Jul 13, 2024
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Reconstructing the Neanderthal brain using computational anatomy - Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24331-0
Jul 13, 2024
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FACEts of mechanical regulation in the morphogenesis of craniofacial structures - International Journal of Oral Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41368-020-00110-4
Jul 13, 2024
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Visualizing AI Patents by Country
www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-ai-patents-by-country/
Apr 24, 2024
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Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-experts-declare-20240419/?mc_cid=7312d47f39&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51
Apr 20, 2024
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-human-brain-perceives-small-numbers-better-20231109/?mc_cid=7312d47f39&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51
Apr 20, 2024
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How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-machines-grok-data-20240412/?mc_cid=d55f4d909a&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51
Apr 14, 2024
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Ranked: The World’s Top Flight Routes, by Revenue
www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-top-flight-routes-by-revenue/
Apr 14, 2024
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Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124001252?via%3Dihub
Apr 11, 2024
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How a piece of pottery found on a beach stroll led to a discovery that could make us rethink First Nations history
www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-04-10/aboriginal-pottery-jiigurru-lizard-island/103681662?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abc_specialist_science_sfmc_20240410&utm_term=&utm_id=2335807&sfmc_id=223378801
Apr 11, 2024
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New Jurassic fossil findings provide insights into the development of the middle ear in mammals
phys.org/news/2024-04-jurassic-fossil-insights-middle-ear.html
Apr 11, 2024
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Gene expression networks regulated by human personality - Molecular Psychiatry
www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02484-x
Apr 4, 2024
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AI Finds Personality Shapes Genes - Neuroscience News
neurosciencenews.com/ai-finds-personality-shapes-genes/
Apr 4, 2024
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Researchers find genetic variant coding for tubulin protein that may be partially responsible for left-handedness
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-genetic-variant-coding-tubulin-protein.amp
Apr 3, 2024
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Anxious Personality Traits: Perspectives from Basic Emotions and Neurotransmitters
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9496710/
Apr 3, 2024
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A neuroscientist shares the 4 ‘highly coveted’ skills that set introverts apart: ‘Their brains work differently’
www.cnbc.com/2023/02/07/neuroscientist-shares-coveted-skills-that-set-introverts-apart-their-brains-work-differently.html
Apr 3, 2024
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Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00930-y
Apr 2, 2024
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Feeding and Stocking Up: Radio-Labelled Food Reveals Exchange Patterns in Ants
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005919
Apr 1, 2024
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Treating your fear of spiders could fix your fear of heights | BPS
www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/treating-your-fear-spiders-could-fix-your-fear-heights
Mar 31, 2024
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What do you ‘see’ when you close your eyes?
visioneyeinstitute.com.au/eyematters/see-close-eyes/
Mar 30, 2024
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Dogs seem to catch even small shifts in our mannerisms | BPS
www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/dogs-seem-catch-even-small-shifts-our-mannerisms
Mar 30, 2024
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Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4
Mar 30, 2024
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Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate - Nature Human Behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01836-5
Mar 30, 2024
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Chimps and bees can also perform “uniquely human” behaviour | BPS
www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/chimps-and-bees-can-also-perform-uniquely-human-behaviour
Mar 30, 2024
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Researchers Glimpse How AI Gets So Good at Language Processing | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-glimpse-how-ai-gets-so-good-at-language-processing-20220414/?mc_cid=88f330021a&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51
Mar 25, 2024
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How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/how-chain-of-thought-reasoning-helps-neural-networks-compute-20240321/?mc_cid=88f330021a&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51
Mar 23, 2024
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What causes introverts to lose "energy" in social settings and require recovery afterwards?
psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/8582/what-causes-introverts-to-lose-energy-in-social-settings-and-require-recovery
Mar 22, 2024
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Introversion and Social Engagement: Scale Validation, Their Interaction, and Positive Association With Self-Esteem
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7734327/
Mar 22, 2024
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The Great Pete Townshend and His Schecter PT Guitars
spinditty.com/instruments-gear/The-Great-Pete-Townshend-And-His-Schecter-PT-Guitars
Mar 22, 2024
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Pygmy Split
westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/pygmy-split/
Mar 18, 2024
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Human molecular evolutionary rate, time dependency and transient polymorphism effects viewed through ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA genomes
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930196/
Mar 18, 2024
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Why did humans evolve big penises but small testicles?
theconversation.com/why-did-humans-evolve-big-penises-but-small-testicles-71652
Mar 7, 2024
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Penis size: An evolutionary perspective | Ask Carole, Evolutionary Agony Aunt
www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/06/women-penis-size
Mar 7, 2024
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Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1301474110
Mar 4, 2024
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Is Endothermy an Evolutionary By-Product? - PubMed
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32396817/
Feb 29, 2024
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Frontiers | The Neurobiology of Imagination: Possible Role of Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Default Mode Network
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00296/full
Feb 25, 2024
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Ancient Viruses Shaped Our Brains - Neuroscience News
neurosciencenews.com/meylin-evolution-virus-25618/
Feb 17, 2024
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The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio-ecological mechanisms
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7969392/
Feb 15, 2024
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Severe Global Cooling After Volcanic Super-Eruptions? The Answer Hinges on Unknown Aerosol Size
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/37/4/JCLI-D-23-0116.1.xml
Feb 11, 2024
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Retinoic acid signaling regulates spatiotemporal specification of human green and red cones
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002464
Feb 11, 2024
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Environment: Humans don’t make history – we play host
johnmenadue.com/environment-humans-dont-make-history-we-play-host/
Feb 10, 2024
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Stanford Medicine-led study shows why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/02/women-autoimmune.html?utm_term=65be54f4913d2bfd76d4f0d8a2498ab9&utm_campaign=TheWeekInPatriarchy&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=weekinpatriarchy_email
Feb 4, 2024
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Is attentional prioritisation of infant faces unique in humans?: Comparative demonstrations by modified dot-probe task in monkeys - PubMed
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23644178/
Feb 1, 2024
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The Origin and Evolution of Cells - The Cell - NCBI Bookshelf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9841/
Jan 31, 2024
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Female and male responses to cuteness, age and emotion in infant faces
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513809000531
Jan 31, 2024
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Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul - Nature Ecology & Evolution
www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0902-6
Jan 31, 2024
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Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident - Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42946-9
Jan 31, 2024
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New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/how-humans-evolved-supersize-brains-20151110/
Jan 28, 2024
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How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-links-gestures-perception-and-meaning-20190325/
Jan 28, 2024
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Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-brains-connections-to-the-body-are-crisscrossed-20230419/
Jan 28, 2024
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The Part of the Brain That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org/the-part-of-the-brain-that-controls-movement-also-guides-feelings-20240123/?mc_cid=7b8025d489&mc_eid=a2d2b35b51
Jan 28, 2024
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