It had been thought to date that the species Homo sapiens has disproportionately large temporal lobes compared to other anthropoid primates, the group including anthropomorphic monkeys and apes. A new study, one of whose ...
Evolution
Mar 6, 2023
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Male whales along Australia's eastern seaboard are giving up singing to attract a mate, switching instead to fighting their male competition.
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2023
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In a new paper published in Remote Sensing of Environment, a team of UConn researchers from the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment (College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources) proposes a new framework ...
Environment
Jan 23, 2023
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In experiments using made-up tweets, participants rated the trustworthiness of faces paired with positive news headlines more highly than faces paired with negative headlines.
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2022
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Analyzing the style of language used by social groups could offer insight into their values and principles that goes beyond what they publicly say about themselves.
Social Sciences
Dec 12, 2022
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Male spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus) build and defend a structure of sticks and straw—the bower. They decorate these nests with colorful objects to attract mates during the breeding season. Certain non-resident ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2022
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Two psychology researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington have published a new book about how innovative ideas emerge in individual and group environments.
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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Wrongdoing is endemic to organizations, costing U.S. firms billions of dollars in fraud. The primary way wrongdoing is caught is through whistleblowers, who have long been thought to act out of a desire to help or improve ...
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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New research from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, just published in the journal Animal Conservation, analyzes more than 50 years of demographic data to examine factors influencing variability in the growth rate of the mountain ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2022
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A new study from the University of Aberdeen has shown for the first time that temperature can affect social behavior in fish.
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2022
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