Somewhere in the murky past, between four and seven million years ago, a hungry common ancestor of today’s primates, including humans, did something novel. While temporarily standing on its rear feet to reach a piece of fruit, this protohominid spotted another juicy morsel in a nearby shrub and began shuffling toward it instead of dropping [...]
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Many women trapped in abusive relationships are literally living for their pets, a University of Windsor researcher has discovered.
Amy Fitzgerald, an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology in the university’s criminology department, said the findings of her study on relationships between abused partners and their companion animals reveals that the need to care for a [...]
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Some primates have evolved big brains because their extra brainpower helps them live and reproduce longer, an advantage that outweighs the demands of extra years of growth and development they spend reaching adulthood, anthropologists from Duke University and the University of Zurich have concluded in a new study.
The four investigators compared key benchmarks in the [...]
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