#evolutionarybiology — Public Fediverse posts
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DATE: August 31, 2026 at 08:53AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHOLOGY FEEDTITLE: Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm
A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shrinking the other depending on what an animal needs to survive.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm
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DATE: August 31, 2026 at 08:53AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEEDTITLE: Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm
A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain wiring, expanding one while shrinking the other depending on what an animal needs to survive.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260829235958.htm
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #BrainEvolution #LizardBrainMyth #Neuroscience #BrainWiring #EvolutionaryBiology #ScienceNews #Neurobiology #AnimalBrains #CognitiveScience #MythBusting
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A cognitive study using non-invasive eye-tracking technology to quantify how gibbons visually process faces, revealing a strong preference for looking at the eyes, particularly those of their own species.
#Ethology #Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEcology #sflorg
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Dogs possess specific neural mechanisms that allow them to process and distinguish between various human facial expressions, such as happiness, fear, anger, and sadness.
#Neuroscience #Ethology #EvolutionaryBiology #Psychology #Dogs #sflorg
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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The rate-mismatch hypothesis posits that global mass extinctions occur when the pace of environmental change outstrips the rate at which biological life can undergo evolutionary adaptation. It provides a mathematical model linking Earth's historic extinction events to the critical disparities between environmental shifts and species' adaptive capabilities.
#Paleobiology #Paleoclimatology #Geophysics #AppliedMathematics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
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Behavioral ecology is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures. It examines how behavior evolves, functions, and adapts in response to an organism's environment.
#BehavioralEcology #evolutionarybiology #ethology #ecology #sflorg
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Who is excited about the next few books he will be reviewing?
- After an impressive debut, I am looking forward to reading Cal Flyn's second book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness, published by HarperCollins.
- Time for another deep dive into the history of my favourite discipline, #EvolutionaryBiology. I really enjoyed Costa's annotated version of Wallace's notebook, and am very excited about delving into this annotated version of #CharlesDarwin's The Descent of Man, beautifully published here by @princetonupress. Expect me to go dark for a while, it's over 760 pages!
- And for context, I will be adding a review of Jeremy DeSilva's A Most Interesting Problem: What #Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about #HumanEvolution, published a few years back, also by Princeton.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon
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Everything evolves, even if it's not obvious in morphology.
#evolution #livingfossils #adaptation #morphology #genetics #immunesystems #evolutionaryhistory #evolutionarybiology
Living Fossils Revealed: The Hidden Evolution of These 4 Ancient Species | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/living-fossils-revealed-the-hidden-evolution-of-these-4-ancient-species?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
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Food for thought #Samples from higher #paleolatitudes were on average smaller, but contained #outliers with the largest #sizes, highlighting the need to analyze entire #distributions. #Lithology and #collection differences need to be accounted for when evaluating #size differences across #space (#polar #gigantism) and #time (#Lilliput #effect). Similarly, differences in #facies may affect #species #determination
