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Rockshelter Discoveries Show Neandertals Were a Lot like Us

mercredi 9 février 2022 par David W. Frayer, Davorka Radovcic — Features, Biology, Evolution

Our much maligned cousins made sophisticated ornaments and probably had language -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

A Strange Creature Discards Genes to Make a Better Heart

jeudi 3 février 2022 par Viviane Callier — Biology, Evolution

The sea squirt relative demonstrates that sometimes less is more: losing genes can be adaptive -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies

mercredi 2 février 2022 par Douglas Fox — Features, Biology, Animals, Evolution

Yet the unfit creatures survive, challenging our long-held view of evolution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fossils Reveal When Animals Started Making Noise

lundi 10 janvier 2022 par Michael B. Habib — Features, Biology, Animals, Evolution

For billions of years Earth was quiet. Then life got loud -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How Did Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans Learn to Count?

jeudi 23 décembre 2021 par Colin Barras, Nature magazine — Features, Biology, Evolution

Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fish Do the Wave to Ward Off Predatory Birds

mercredi 22 décembre 2021 par Jack Tamisiea — Biology, Animals, Evolution

The synchronized dance of sulfur mollies is not only mesmerizing to watch but also confusing to predators -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence

samedi 11 décembre 2021 par Rafael Yuste, Michael Levin — Opinion, Biology, Evolution

A common solution is emerging in two different fields: developmental biology and neuroscience -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

mardi 30 novembre 2021 par Henry Gee — Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Reproduction

Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Redo of a Famous Experiment on the Origins of Life Reveals Critical Detail Missed for Decades

vendredi 26 novembre 2021 par Sarah Vitak — Biology, Evolution

The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the conditions of early Earth could be simulated in a glass flask. New research finds the flask itself played an underappreciated, though outsize, role. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American