summer slow-down

Just to let you all know – with the summer break coming up I'll probably drop down to just a couple of posts a week. And maybe even a few that aren't really on-topic – still biology/science but maybe on things that are a bit odd, peculiar, or downright strange. But normal service will resume […]

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faces of our ancestors

I wish I'd found this page earlier – you might have found it interesting in preparing for your exams. It's a series of images pf reconstructed hominin faces, & a linking story about them. (There's actually a whole book about them – I bought myself a copy earlier this year & I'm enjoying dipping into […]

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primates’ closest living relatives?

Scientists have thought for a long time that tree shrews are the closest living relatives of primates. More recently, use of DNA data together with morphological comparisons suggested that colugos are also very closely related to apes, monkeys (& us). These so-called 'flying' lemurs use extensive flaps of loose skin, stretched between their outspread front and back […]

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