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• Where Did All the Mammoths Go?

  

  Roll back the clock 50,000 years and the world was a very different place. Up to 5 species of human were living side by side, including the Neanderthals and... Read more

  The 05 August 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Does Buying Your Date Dinner Work? (or, “the Second Big Reason You Shouldn’t...

  

  It’s often said that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”, but is there any scientific merit to this idea? And what of the reverse? After all, men... Read more

  The 07 August 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Was “the Hobbit” a Human with Down Syndrome? Probably Not

  

  The human family once cintained a lot more than just humans, with all sorts of weird off-shoots developing over the course of our evolution. Like humans with th... Read more

  The 12 August 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Do All Species Form the Same Way as Songbirds?

  

  As niches are filled up by new species speciation slows down. Comes to a halt, even. This makes sense, as the niches are ways of life that organisms can have, i... Read more

  The 15 August 2014 by   Bjornostman
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• This Week in Human Evolution (4/8/14): Prehistoric Violence in the Middle East,...

  

  On Friday I write shorter posts about research into human evolution that is interesting, but doesn’t contain quite enough content to sustain a longer article. Read more

  The 08 August 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Chimps Beat Humans in Game, Even Match Computer Performance

  

  “Troglodyte” is a term used to insult someone’s intelligence. It’s also the technical term for a chimpanzee – whose species name is Pan troglodytes – and sure... Read more

  The 17 August 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Through the Lens

  

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  The 24 August 2014 by   Iratemonkey
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• MCMC for Linear Models

  I’ve been asked in a comment to give a sample of pseudo code for an MCMC algorithm to fit a linear model to some data. See here for the original post on MCMC. Read more

  The 25 August 2014 by   Ccc1685
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• Avoiding Prince Joffrey: Primates Have Newly Discovered Ability That Stops...

  

  Chimps are very, very clever. So clever, in fact, that they engage in politics; building alliances to take on other chimps and claw their way up the social... Read more

  The 10 August 2014 by   Reprieve
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