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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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08262601.html

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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ns08112601.html

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

How does social complexity drive the evolution of communication—and vice versa? 🧠🐝

New Open Research Topic: "#Coevolution of #Social #Communication Systems and Social #Complexity" (#Frontiers).

We're looking for contributions using:
- #Empirical and #comparative studies testing the forms and functions of communication across modalities (chemical, acoustic, visual, tactile, electrical)
- Frameworks focusing on the evolution of #language and/or #sociality
- #Quantitative and #computational #frameworks
- #NetworkBasedAnalyses
- #InformationTheoreticMeasures and #MachineLearning approaches
- Formal #MathematicalModelling of #SenderReceiver dynamics

From #ResourceDefence to #MateChoice or #CollectiveDecisionMaking: how do #ecological and social pressures shape #signalling?

Deadline: 31 Jan 2027. More information here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/77760/coevolution-of-social-communication-systems-and-social-complexity

#EvolutionaryBiology #Ethology #OpenScience #ComplexSystems #Frontiers

The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life

The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #climatechange #evolution #Evolutionarybiology #McMasterUniversity #mice #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/769663/

The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life

The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #Climatechange #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #McMasterUniversity #mice #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/807164/

The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life

The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Canada #climatechange #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #McMasterUniversity #mice #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/808963/

Colobus congoensis is a newly discovered, distinct species of monkey endemic to the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, characterized by its mostly black fur and striking orange facial patches.
#Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #Taxonomy #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/zoo07152601.html

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
- I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
- I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

#Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/cat06212601.html

Dwarf mongooses anticipate future encounters with rival groups and proactively adjust their movement, communication, and resource defense strategies, even in the absence of an immediate threat.
#BehavioralEcology #Ethology #EvolutionaryBiology #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bs06162601.html

Across an extraordinary variety of species, animals vocalize at a strikingly consistent rate of approximately two to three acoustic events per second (around 2.8 Hz), constrained by the brain's inherent capacity to process auditory stimuli.
#Neurobiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Bioacoustics #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bio06142603.html

🧬 New publication!

Excited to introduce DupyliCate, an automated tool for the identification, classification, and characterization of gene duplications. Designed for high-throughput analyses across diverse species, it supports comparative genomics and evolutionary studies.

📄 Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-55350-x

#Genomics #Bioinformatics #EvolutionaryBiology #ScientificReports #OpenScience
@boas_pucker

https://www.europesays.com/ie/514977/ Killer Whales Teach Their Children To Beach Themselves — A Biologist Explains Why #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #IE #IntentionalStranding #Ireland #KillerWhale #KillerWhalesHunting #MarineBiology #OrcaHunting #OrcaWhale #orcas #OrcinusOrca #Science #WhatDoKillerWhalesEat #Wildlife

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1000796/ Killer Whales Teach Their Children To Beach Themselves — A Biologist Explains Why #EvolutionaryBiology #IntentionalStranding #KillerWhale #KillerWhalesHunting #MarineBiology #OrcaHunting #OrcaWhale #orcas #OrcinusOrca #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhatDoKillerWhalesEat #wildlife

Killer Whales Teach Their Children To Beach Themselves — A Biologist Explains Why

Along remote coastlines, killer whale parents teach their young how to intentionally beach themselves for prey in a…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #EvolutionaryBiology #intentionalstranding #killerwhale #killerwhaleshunting #Marinebiology #orcahunting #orcawhale #orcas #Orcinusorca #Science #whatdokillerwhaleseat
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/710663/

Killer Whales Teach Their Children To Beach Themselves — A Biologist Explains Why

Along remote coastlines, killer whale parents teach their young how to intentionally beach themselves for prey in a…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #EvolutionaryBiology #intentionalstranding #killerwhale #killerwhaleshunting #Marinebiology #orcahunting #orcawhale #orcas #Orcinusorca #Science #whatdokillerwhaleseat
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/710663/

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

Meet The Axolotl — The Salamander That Can Regrow Its Own Brain

The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Ambystomamexicanum #axolotlbrain #canaxolotlsregeneratetheirbrain #evolution #Evolutionarybiology #limbregeneration #Marinebiology #Regeneration #salamander #Science #traumaticbraininjury
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/647974/

🐦What can we learn about our own health from the #SeychellesWarbler?

Dr Chuen Zhang Lee & his team at the UG/UEA have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system, all thanks to this small songbird.🎵

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/2026/island-birds-reveal-surprising-link-between-immunity-and-gut-bacteria

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #Seychelles #ecology #evolutionarybiology #genetics #biology #microbiology #conservation #research #science #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

Protected learning is a biological mechanism in which adult animals create staged, risk-mitigated developmental spaces, allowing offspring to safely acquire essential survival skills without facing immediate lethal consequences.
#ComputationalBiology #TheoreticalBiology #Ethology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/bs03022601.html

Reciprocal altruism (Evolutionary biology 🧬)

In evolutionary biology, reciprocal altruism is a behaviour whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that the other organism will act in a similar manner at a later time. The concept was initially developed by Rob...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism

#ReciprocalAltruism #Altruism #Symbiosis #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryPsychology

Judith Rosen is opening The First International Conferencia on Anticipatory Systems #bio #biology #philsci #complexity #Rosen #comp #phy #sci #science #theory #TheoryOfMind #theory #mind #psy #psychology #epidemiology #medicine #ecology #evo #evolution #evolutionarybiology #evo

#EukaryoticCells emerged as #evolutionary algorithmic phase transition: #Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer #proteins // #EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #evolution

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/04/17/the-eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-an-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition

#EukaryoticCells emerged as #evolutionary algorithmic phase transition: #Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer #proteins // #EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #evolution

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/04/17/the-eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-an-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition

#EukaryoticCells emerged as #evolutionary algorithmic phase transition: #Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer #proteins // #EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #evolution

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/04/17/the-eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-an-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition

#EukaryoticCells emerged as #evolutionary algorithmic phase transition: #Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer #proteins // #EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #evolution

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/04/17/the-eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-an-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition

The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition / Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer proteins / Evolvement of the eukaryotic cell is the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition/

#EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #eukaryotic #genes #proteins #evolution #EukaryoticCells #eukaryogenesis #biology #physics

The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition / Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer proteins / Evolvement of the eukaryotic cell is the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition/

#EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #eukaryotic #genes #proteins #evolution #EukaryoticCells #eukaryogenesis #biology #physics

The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition / Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer proteins / Evolvement of the eukaryotic cell is the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition/

#EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #eukaryotic #genes #proteins #evolution #EukaryoticCells #eukaryogenesis #biology #physics

The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition / Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer proteins / Evolvement of the eukaryotic cell is the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/eukaryotic-cell-emerged-as-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition/

#EvolutionaryBiology #ComputerBiology #eukaryotic #genes #proteins #evolution #EukaryoticCells #eukaryogenesis #biology #physics

#RobertTrivers - #Mathematics and #Evolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s9bGGB_zd0

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #Kinship #Altruism #Parent #Offspring #Child #Children #Family #Mammals #Competition #Conflict #Islam #Hinduism #Muslim #Hindu #Caste #CasteSystem #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#TerrenceDeacon - #Philosophy of #Biological #Information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH5p7uFMr3c

#PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Shannon #Signal #Signals #Complexity #Encoding #DNA #Protein #Chemistry #Folding #ProteinFolding #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Why #PhilosophyOfBiology? - Episode 2301 - #CloserToTruth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZ-8RVaUlM

#Philosophy #Biology #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Life #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #Selection #Adaptation #Theory #Theories #Metaphysics #Genetics #Genes #Kuhn #ThomasKuhn #Paradign #Paradigms #MassimoPigliucci #RobertKuhn

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: "Facultative #parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in #stickinsects?" https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.283

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: "Facultative #parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in #stickinsects?" https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.283

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: "Facultative #parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in #stickinsects?" https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.283

#JamesMcInerney - How Do You #Know You Know Something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRRlen_oz0&ab_channel=JamesTalksResearch

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Epistemology #Knowledge #Experiment #Falsifiability #Consilience

Happy Mother’s Day to our extended matrilineages throughout prehistory! https://www.phylopic.org/nodes/105d17a4-9706-4fd5-85d7-becffaf6250a/lineage #mothersday #evolution #evolutionary #evolutionarybiology #lineages

Hello all. I am still getting a hang of this system, but here is an #introduction

I am a PhD student at WashU working with David Queller and Joan Strassmann at WashU. My broad interests span the evolution of cooperation and conflict and its consequences on biological complexity and major transitions. I use empirical (social amoebae) and theoretical approaches to my research. #evocell #evodevo #ecology #EvolutionaryBiology #evolutionarydynamics #EvolutionaryGenomics #theoreticalbiology