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Developmental dyslexia essential to human adaptive success, study argues
Cambridge researchers studying cognition, behaviour and the brain have concluded that people with dyslexia are specialised to explore the unknown. This is likely to play a fundamental role in human...
View ArticleShaking the dinosaur family tree: how did ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs evolve?
Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs – the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops – and found that they likely evolved from a group of...
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Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life
Their results, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that seawater might be the missing source of phosphate, meaning that it could have been available on a large enough scale for life...
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New route to evolution: how DNA from our mitochondria gets into our genomes
In a study published today in Nature, researchers at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London show that mitochondrial DNA also appears in some cancer DNA, suggesting that it acts...
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First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old ‘Lucy’ could...
A Cambridge University researcher has digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of an early human ancestor – or hominin – for the first time, revealing a capability to stand as erect as we do...
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Chimpanzees use hilltops to conduct reconnaissance on rival groups
Chimpanzees use high ground to conduct reconnaissance on rival groups, often before making forays into enemy territory at times when there is reduced risk of confrontation, a new study suggests....
View ArticleSuccessful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new study has found.
View ArticleEarth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils
The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England.
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