From Contemporary Syntax to Human Language’s Deep Origins
On the island of Java, in Indonesia, the silvery gibbon, an endangered primate, lives in the rainforests. In a behavior that’s unusual for a primate, the silvery gibbon sings: It…
biology
Microbes May Drive Evolution of New Animal Species
A little over a year ago, Bordenstein, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and his then-graduate student, Robert Brucker, mated two incompatible species of wasp in the lab,…
Analyzing Sperm Cells to Learn About Animal Infidelity, Evolution
Researchers at the Natural History Museum at University of Oslo, Norway, were among the first in the world to start analyzing sperm cells to learn more about bird evolution and…
Dogs Follow Human Voice Direction to Find Hidden Food
Dogs and puppies are gifted at interpreting human communicative hints, and previous studies showed that they use human visual cues like pointing or gazing in order to find hidden food….
Humans Smell Gender
The human body produces chemical cues that communicate gender to members of the opposite sex, according to researchers who report their findings in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. Whiffs of the active…