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Even On The Red Planet, Hexagons Are The Bestagons
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (37+ words) Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can't help but keep falling out of natural processes-- case in point, the six-sided solid we call a hexago......
The Elixir of Coordinates: How a Jungle Riddle Unlocks the Geometry of the Universe
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (178+ words) The Elixir of Coordinates: Mapping Discrete State Spaces via Geometrical Hyperplanes Here is an interesting story. Aman and Vinayak are travelling through a forest. (Why? That’s their secret!) As …...
Primate brains grew larger because of vision, not higher reasoning
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (1002+ words) Brains rot within days. The bony case that held them can last 33 million years, which is why primate brain evolution has been so hard to read from fossils. A new study led by scientists at Duke University filled those empty…...
Scientists Discover that the Increase in Visual Information Was What Allowed the Development of Ape and Human Brains
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (677+ words) A study overturns the prevailing hypothesis about brain evolution in primates and places vision as the main driver of neocortex development, relegating the frontal lobe to a role of merely proportional growth. The research, published in the journal Science, was…...
Monkeys found to possess a trait previously considered unique to humans
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (334+ words) baku.ws Monkeys found to possess a trait previously considered unique to humans An experiment has shown that macaques, like humans, associate rounded shapes with the sound of the word "bouba" and angular shapes with the word "kiki." The results…...
Equal Measure Is Not Identity When Orientation Crosses Center
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1695+ words) This lesson was inspired by George Dimitriadis’s classroom puzzle, “Jimmy Watches Mathematics Prove That 1 = −1.” George presents an intentionally convincing-looking derivation and asks the reader, alongside Jimmy and his classmates, to locate the point where valid-looking mathematics becomes invalid. His lesson…...
Visual reliance drove diverse brain evolution among primates
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (368+ words) Bioengineer.org A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions about the evolution of the primate brain: that our lineage became exceptionally intelligent primarily because the frontal lobe expanded dramatically Instead, fossil evidence analyzed by researchers at…...
Reliance on vision drove varied brain development in primates
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (521+ words) New fossil study led by Duke finds vision — not the “thinking” frontal lobe — drove the expansion of the primate neocortex image: A virtual endocast of primate species Simonsius grangeri created by the researchers. view more Credit: Kay et al./MorphoSource…...
Montana State researcher helps rewrite understanding of how primate brain evolved
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (12+ words) montana.edu...
Vision Key to Diverse Primate Brain Evolution
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (466+ words) A new study led by a Duke University scientist overturns a long-held idea about how primates, including humans, came to have such large and sophisticated brains. The research finds that the dramatic expansion of the primate neocortex was driven largely…...