What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of May 24, 2021

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Mon, 24 May 2021
New study has scientists re-evaluating brain size and mammalian intelligence

How brain and body size evolved in mammals over the last 150 million years

Scientists at Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have pieced together a timeline

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Mon, 24 May 2021
Developing a taste for carbs wasn’t necessarily a bad thing

Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues to evolution, health

A new study looking at the evolutionary history of the human oral microbiome shows that Neanderthals and ancient humans adapted to eating starch-rich foods as far back as 100,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

The research, funded in part by the

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