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A student and a professor from CUNY’s Graduate Center and Brooklyn College have pruned a branch off the primate tree. New research reveals that picrodontids, small extinct mammals, are not related to primates. This discovery, made by examining a picrodontid skull with advanced CT scans, overturns
The science of rhythm across species is a new and growing research field, as yet without agreement on the question of whether the phenomenon of rhythm exists
<p>A newly published paper in <strong>Royal Society’s <em><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0335">Biology Letters</a></em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>reveals that picrodontids —an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs—are not primates as previously believed.</p>
Public Release: 8-May-2017 Indiana University IMAGE: This is Shelby S. Putt. Credit: University of Iowa By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human-like ways of thinking may have emerged as early as 1.8 million years ago. The results,…
New genetic research confirms the oral history of a small group of nomadic people living in Indonesia’s rainforest.