Stopping ‘wasteful recollection of data already held by other research groups’
Last week I commented on the American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ recent statement on access to data: “Biological Anthropology association speak...
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Better than a finger in the eye
Michael Balter writes in Science about a meeting called “Culture Evolves”: “Probing Culture’s Secrets, From Capuchins to Children.”
Swimming orangutans
New Scientist is running a gallery of orangutans interacting in water. These are orphaned orangutans that were relocated to an island and have since been obs...
Evolving swarm bots
Robot swarms programmed with genetic algorithms to “evolve” their behavior:
Gorilla snippets from the 1800's
I’m skipping around the net doing some historical research today, and I’ve been running across stories that try to describe apes to the general public, aroun...