A kiss on the cheek will still feel the same as you get older | Study has shown that age-related decline in sensitivity only happens in hairless skin but not in the hairy cheeks and forearms due to our evolutionary history as social primates, for whom touch is an important method of communication.
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A kiss on the cheek will still feel the same as you get older
A kiss on the cheek will still feel the same as you get older
While many of our senses dull as we age, we may not lose our sensitivity to touch everywhere on our bodies, according to inter
While many of our senses dull as we age, we may not lose our sensitivity to touch everywhere on our bodies, according to inter
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500 million-year-old fossil is the earliest branch of the spider’s lineage
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Nature
Lower Ordovician synziphosurine reveals early euchelicerate diversity and evolution
Nature Communications - Here, the authors describe an early synziphosurine from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of Morocco, which exhibits traits that elucidate the long-contentious...
A fossilised Neanderthal, found in France and nicknamed 'Thorin', is from an ancient and previously undescribed genetic line that separated from other Neanderthals around 100,000 years ago and remained isolated for more than 50,000 years, right up until our ancient cousins went extinct.
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An ancient Neanderthal community was isolated for over 50,000 years
An ancient Neanderthal community was isolated for over 50,000 years
A fossilised Neanderthal, found in France and nicknamed 'Thorin' after Tolkien's dwarf character, is from an ancien
A fossilised Neanderthal, found in France and nicknamed 'Thorin' after Tolkien's dwarf character, is from an ancien
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New study reveals Neanderthals experienced population crash 110,000 years ago. Examination of semicircular canals of ear shows Neanderthals experienced ‘bottleneck’ event where physical and genetic variation was lost.
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Binghamton University
New study reveals Neanderthals experienced population crash 110,000 years ago
A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction.
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A million-year-old human skull 🦴 suggests that the origins of modern humans 🌍 may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens 🧑🤝🧑 first emerged outside of Africa. 🌍
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the Guardian
Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution
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Phylogenomics redefines the evolutionary history of mosquitoes 🦟🔬🌍
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