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Comparative, Evolutionary & Developmental Psychology. News, articles and media from the world of human and non-human behaviour, development and cognition.

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Neanderthals gave us a selection of disease genes - [Journal article]

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(BBC News, 30th January 2014) - Gene types that influence disease in people today were picked up through interbreeding with Neanderth...

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Monday, 25 November 2013

Evidence of interbreeding among early Hominins - [Journal article]

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http://digitaljournal.com (Iflscience.com, 25, November 2013) - The evolutionary tree for modern humans is a bit of a mess - humans ...

Friday, 22 November 2013

Bird alarm: Great tits use predator-specific calls - [Journal article]

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http://upload.wikimedia.org (BBC News, 22, November 2013) - Great tits use different alarm calls for different predators, accor...

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Where is Language Located in the Brain? There are Two Sides to this Story - [Journal Article]

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( BPS Research Digest, 21, November 2013 ) - Simple facts about the brain are rare, but one of them is that for most people langu...

Saturday, 16 November 2013

Unusual Animal Intelligence - [Magazine article]

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(Iflscience.com, 22, October 2013) - Before 1960 most of the work surrounding animal intelligence was centred around behaviour, wit...

Monday, 19 August 2013

Altruism or manipulated helping? Altruism may have origins in manipulation - [Article]

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(Phys.org, 19, Aug 2013) - Manipulation is often thought of as morally repugnant, but it might be responsible for the evolutionary...

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