B外文素材选自THE WEEK Junior大脑的神奇之处What separates humans from our animal relatives?The brain. Human brain power has invented things likeart, language, literature and so on.But there is stillmuch we don't know about the brain. Recently, scientistsfrom Cambridge University discovered that swi...
Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator Advertisement “If early humans had not appeared, the number of species would probably still be increasing,” saysTorsten Hauffeat the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
My first thought was that the ancestors of these people with horns had sex with animals, so the human DNA was mixed with animal DNA. Or maybe their ancestors had sex with fallen angels. Back in Genesis, when the fallen angels had sex with women, it really opened the door to other sins...
Our hero has become so greedy and thoughtless about his fellow animal travellers and the Earth on which he stands (men are overwhelmingly, if not totally, to blame). He has become bereft of common decency, humility, humanity and the ethical and moral consideration that made us different from...
aWhy do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 per cent of every human population that has ever lived appears to...
Humans' closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, have the ability to "think about thinking" – what is called "metacognition," according to new research by scientists at Georgia State University and the University at Buffalo. Michael J. Beran and Bonnie M. Perdue of the Georgia State Language Rese...
Inbreeding, the mating of close kin, and outbreeding, the mating of distant relatives or unrelated organisms, have long been important subjects to evolutio... NW Thornhill - 《Journal of Animal Ecology》 被引量: 947发表: 1993年 Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population ...
Humans are not the only ones who underwent self-domestication. So did our close relatives, the bonobos,and the species we call our best friend. A tiny proportion of the genome(基因组) differentiates dogs from wolves,and yet millions of dogs are comfortably curled up in our homes, while wolv...
—Ancient DNA from South Africa rock shelter reveals the same human population stayed there for 9,000 years —Neanderthals and modern humans interbred 'at the crossroads of human migrations' in Iran, study finds —4,500-year-old tomb in France reveals secrets of how 'European...
Color is important in human social and religious life, as part of clothing, ornaments, art, food, and drink; the pigments of animal, vegetable, and mineral origin are all valuable resources. In Mexico, for example, knowledge of the coloring properties of plant parts such as roots stems, lea...