Brain-body allometry revisited across mammals
Humans today have much bigger brains than our close living relatives among the great apes. It used to be that scientists assumed that brain evolution followe...
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Will a Jurassic placental mammal make the molecular clock make sense?
A new paper in Nature by Zhe-Xi Luo and colleagues Luo:Jurassic:2011 reports the discovery of a 160-million-year-old early mammal, Juramaia, which they attri...