Familiarity breeds… mutual aid (at least in some birds)
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Biology Letters “Long-term familiarity promotes joining in neighbour nest defence“
A Minor Post, Articles, Birds, Cooperation, Reciprocity, Social NetworksThere is no doubt that there are conservation trade-offs associated with the proliferation of wind power
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0Nature News “The trouble with turbines: An ill wind” What is particularly scary about this story is the targeted effect that wind turbines can have on particular species who gravitate to the very wind corridors that are ideal for efficient power generation.
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Birds, Sustainable EnergyBonobo sequence establishes that humans are equally but dissimilarly related to our chimpanzee relatives
Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0Nature “The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes” Nature News “‘Hippie chimp’ genome sequenced” ScienceNow “Bonobos Join Chimps as Closest Human Relatives“
A Minor Post, Articles, Human Evolution, Human Uniqueness, Phylogenetics, Primates, Primatology, Web{Canis lupus familiaris + Homo sapiens} versus Homo neanderthalenthis?
Posted 17 May 2012 / 0Daily Mail “Did dogs help humans conquer the world? Man’s best friend may be the reason why we flourished over the Neanderthals” The Atlantic “Humanity’s Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals“
A Minor Post, Animal Domestication, Articles, Canids, Homo species, Human EvolutionI knew that dog was watching me: Jennifer Verdolin confirms my worst fears
Posted 11 May 2012 / 0Scientific American Blogs “The Art of Eavesdropping: Nature’s Silent Sniffers, Watchers and Listeners”
A Minor Post, Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Canids, WebAre dolphins on their way to domesticating humans?
Posted 07 May 2012 / 0Global Animal “Dolphins Team Up With Fisherman” Now if only the dolphins can somehow get over that little “needs to breathe air every two minutes” problem with humans through artificial breeding. Seriously, though, this is really interesting as an analog for the kind of coevolution that probably occurred between humans and wolves. Just as was Read More
A Minor Post, Cetaceans, Cooperation, Human Uniqueness, Intelligences