Tag: mammals
Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?
Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people.
Yes, Ants Think — Like Computers
Computer programmers have adapted some ant problem-solving methods to software programs (but without the need for complex chemical scents).
Can Largely Rearranged Genomes Explain Why Octopuses Are So Smart?
Even compared to each other, the genomes of three cephalopods studied had been broken up and extensively reorganized.
Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species
If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar?
Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism
Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology.