Human Brain Subliminally Judges 'Trustworthiness' of Faces
The human brain can judge the apparent trustworthiness of a face from a glimpse so fleeting, the person has no idea they have seen it, scientists claim. Researchers in the…
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How Do You Make a Bird? Shrink a Dinosaur for 50 Million Years
Large flesh-eating dinosaurs evolved into small flying birds, but it did not happen overnight. An international team of scientists on Thursday described an extraordinary evolutionary process that unfolded over a…
Marmoset Sequence Sheds Light on Primate Biology, Evolution
A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset –…
Running For Life: How Speed Restricts Evolutionary Change of the Vertebral Column
One of the riddles of mammal evolution explained: the strong conservation of the number of trunk vertebrae. Researchers of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the University of Utah show that…
To Avoid Interbreeding, Monkeys Have Undergone Evolution in Facial Appearance
Old World monkeys have undergone a remarkable evolution in facial appearance as a way of avoiding interbreeding with closely related and geographically proximate species, researchers from New York University and…
The Games Genes Play: Algorithm Helps Explain Sex in Evolution
What do you get when you mix theorists in computer science with evolutionary biologists? You get an algorithm to explain sex. It turns out that 155 years after Charles Darwin…