that the cognitive responses to the sex com- position found here, in laboratory conditions, evolved because of their positive consequences on access to mates in the real world setting, and a mechanism able to silence these responses in an anonymous context did not have any chance to evolve. To...
It dates back to 1900 BC, which is about 4000 years ago, and comes from Sumeria, which is now Southern Iraq, it has been translated and reads like this ‘Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.’ You, like me, May...
This “aperture test” requires a decisive response from the participant before it would make contact with the opening as proof of its reliance on its mental representation of their own size and/or shape40. Based on this, we provided evidence that cats probably did not make detectable a ...
Here’s what gives me pause: the accessory laminae in theSaurophaganaxholotype are pretty much dead ringers for the spinoprezyg laminae (SPRLs) in thegiant Oklahoma apatosaurine. I didn’t figure that out, Andy Danison did, and it’s one of those things that has just kept growing and ...
Tools capable of supporting even a simple hunting lifestyle did not exist until our ancestors had been walking upright for millions of years. As a theory explaining the origins of the human line, Man the Hunter was a failure. Whatever these bipedal apes were doing, they weren’t carrying ...
4. Consider whether you need a higher degree at all.John McIntosh, the greatest of all sauropod palaeontologists, had no formal qualification in palaeontology (though he did have a doctorate in physics). That was in a time when it was hard to get access to the literature outside of formal...
Oh, he (or his brother from another planet) tried to turn me on to Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies. (FWIW, on the original Jesus Christ, Superstar record, Byrd did the, er, music for the crucifixion scene.) Since one of the typical tracks on the proffered album was “You Can’t ...
WRI1 was first discovered in Arabidopsis [12], and its orthologs have been identified from oil seed crops such as rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) [19], corn (Zea mays L.) [20], and Camelina sativa [21], as well as from plants rich in oil in non-seed tissues such as oil palm (...