by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Chimpanzees, Co-operation
Alpha males reward their buddies by giving them sexual access to the most desirable females. Is anyone surprised by this? Current Biology
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Infants, Intonation
Young babies don’t do a lot, but every year we discover there is a lot more going on inside than you can tell. The latest news is that four-month-olds already have an idea about the shape of a word. EEG measurement showed that infants this young recognize...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Common sense, Crows
There’s a lot relevant to language evolution in the latest Current Biology. First up: crows. The First Word reports on Betty the New Caledonian crow who worked out how to build a hook so as to snare some hard-to-reach food. The most remarkable part of...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 13, 2007 | Infrared, Snakes, Squirrels
Mice, elephants, and other animals hear and make sounds that are well outside the range of human hearing. It was discovered only very recently, for example, that mice sing in frequencies much higher than we can perceive. It’s been known for longer that animals,...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 12, 2007 | Africa, Australopithecus afarensis, Skeleton
"…[W]hat is the benefit of taking one of the most iconic examples of the human story from Africa to parade it around in second-level museums in the United States?" asked Richard Leakey in an Associated Press interview. Leakey is protesting the...
