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| 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 (²ÝÁñÉçÇø alumnus and now Yale grad student) Jack McBride and (²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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 | |||
| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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? °Õ³ó±ð… |
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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… |
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| Anthropology faculty and students awarded grants to support research | |||
| Research Recap for Feb. 19 | |||
| Tesla Monson’s Research Sheds New Light on the Evolution of Vision in Primates |