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| Anything but Basic: The push to reduce spending on foundational research is shortsighted, Tesla A. Monson and Marianne F. Brasil write | As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are left worrying whether their grants will be attacked and their projects terminated. Alongside… |
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| Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Real-Life ‘Hobbits’ Were So Small | Homo floresiensis differed from Homo sapiens in other ways, as well. They had prominent brow ridges and barely any chin, as opposed to the larger skull, smaller brow ridges, and visible chin of our species. Their hips and shoulders were also much wider, and not unlike the… |
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| Anthro grad student Jewel Curtis digging into the relationship between bone density and drug use | |||
| Anthropology's Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil publish new paper on the evolution of our primate relatives | |||
| Five reasons for faculty to write for The Conversation | |||
| 60 million years ago our primate ancestors had twins all the time, finds study | Head researchers (WWU alumnus and now Yale grad student) Jack McBride and (WWU Associate Professor of Anthropology) Tesla Monson have been studying litter size for several years, as they have been quoted as saying in Live Science. In the study, they present an argument that “assessing… |
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| Research recap: Students working on new research in anthropology and environmental sciences | |||
| WWU Anthropology Faculty Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil Secure New $550k NSF grant | |||
| Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution | Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our ancestors’ life cycle – like pregnancy or gestation – that leave no obvious trace in the fossil record? The… |
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| Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps | High prenatal growth rates found in modern people may have first evolved in ancient hominids less than a million years ago, according to estimates based on fossil teeth. Human fetuses grow by around 11.6 grams per day on average – considerably faster than the fetuses of gorillas, the… |