MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
@mu-peter
Disruptive Digital Darwinist 💀 #Neanderthal is in my DNA! 🧬 #Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience CBSA
Sotheby's Big T. Rex Auction Raises Concerns Hype and Wealth Are Upending Science🧪 @katewong.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/sotheb... Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. Making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.
Well, you can probably stand the whole flight... can't go far on that tiny tank of petrol. But it must make fastening harness and seat belt a bit tricky though.
What can the latest fossil discoveries tell us about our origins — and why are we the only human species left? Discussion on some of the greatest mysteries of human evolution The Biggest Mysteries of Human Evolution🏺🧪 with Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmN5...
Exploring Uluzzian Lithic Technology at Klissoura Cave 1, Greece🏺🧪 Giulia Marciani, @katharv.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1... Uluzzian technocomplex 43–39 Kya marks one of the earliest dispersals of Homo sapiens into Europe and onset of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean
BBC Evolution series should be compulsory viewing for everyone over the age of 5 Why new BBC series Evolution is a giant leap forward for science on TV🧪 www.ft.com/content/c6c0... Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it.
Sad news of the passing of Sam Neill The news was announced by his family, who said his death in Sydney, Australia, was "sudden and unexpected". 'Hero, legend, sweetheart': Tributes to Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill, who has died aged 78 www.bbc.com/news/article...
🔆 Good Morning! I'm taking steps too overcome my hiking addiction But I'm not out of the woods yet. A prescription to walk... "the closest thing we have to a wonder drug," in the words of Dr. Thomas Frieden 5 surprising benefits of walking🧪 www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-agin...
I used to joke with my kids that "well, it's cheaper than food." With prices now, I can't say that anymore, so I've changed it to "Well, it's almost food."
I'm not a big fan of home schooling... but I'm starting to think there are worse things.
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? Is Life Just Different?🧪 www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...
Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... A significant number of fossil specimens are bent to the left (right in life). These bends constitute oldest described evidence of behavioural handedness to the right.
A large brain fitting snugly within the endocranium Neural tissues and chondrostean traits in a Carboniferous actinopterygian🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... This study of the early ray-finned fish Trawdenia planti reveals preserved neural tissues which filled the space within the neurocranium.
Reading: The Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer The Perks of Being a Bookworm The Science of the Benefits of Reading🧪 Falk Huettig, Max-Planck-Institute www.cambridge.org/ca/universit... Huettig frames literacy as one of the most potent, evidence-backed tools for cognitive enhancement available to humans
🧠 A brain is a brain is a brain Nod to G. Stein Robust but independent sex differences in human brain function, structure, and behavior🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The few subtle sex differences in brain-behavior linkage that do exist are not preferentially localized to sex-biased behaviors.
What transforms a novice into an expert? Research shows expertise relies on domain-specific knowledge, but a neural account of this transformation has remained fragmentary. Low-dimensional and optimised representations of high-level information in the expert brain🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...