In the animal kingdom, females are rarely faithful to their mates, so there is probably sperm from a number of males inside a female reproductive tract.
How can I buy a plane ticket to that Animal Kingdom you all're talking about.
Scientists revealed that Neanderthals cared for their disabled children out of compassion
I mean it's the obvious guess, but compassion doesn't leave a direct fossil record. In the paper the thing they emphasise is that it was an obviously permanent disability, so there couldn't have been a practical survival motivation.
The article is coherent (it conveys the relevant info without contradicting itself) albeit poorly written. Most likely the result of someone getting really sloppy while writing it, perhaps sleep-deprived. But it doesn't read like AI stuff, nor a translation - cue to "Cova Negra cave" (lit. "Black Cave cave").
Researchers discovered the skeleton of a young Neanderthal man who was about six years old when he died. Although researchers were not sure what the child’s gender was, she was named Tina.
I can only really guess whether they're talking about one or two subjects here. In one sentence they call a six year old a man and gender them male, then in the next they gender them female and call them Tina. The pronouns keep switching back and forth.
Scientists noted that Tina’s survival to the age of six indicates that her team provided the necessary care for the child and her mother throughout this period.
Her team? Why does it show someone cared for the mother as well?
Yes when it comes to the relevant info. The anaphoric references are all over the place; he, her, she, man*, they all refer to the same fossil.
*not quite an anaphoric reference, I know. I'm still treating it as one.
I can only really guess whether they’re talking about one or two subjects here.
It's clearly one. Dated to be six years old, of unknown sex, nicknamed "Tina".
Why does it show someone cared for the mother as well?
This does not show lack of coherence. Instead it shows the same as the "is it?" from your comment: assuming that a piece of info is clear by context, when it isn't. [This happens all the time.]
That said, my guess (I'll repeat for emphasis: this is a guess): I think that this shows that they cared for the mother because, without doing so, the child would've died way, way earlier.
That all reads like bad AI writing to me.
I genuinely don't think so.
Modern LLMs typically don't leave sentence fragments like "on the territory of modern Spain. Years ago." They're consistent with anaphoric references, even when they don't make sense in the real world. And they don't screw up with prepositions, like switching "in" with "on". All those errors are typically human.
On the other hand, LLMs fail hard on a discursive level. They don't know the topic (in this case, the fossil). At least this error is not present here.
Based on that I think that a better explanation for why this text is so poorly written is "CBA". The author couldn't be arsed to review it. Myself wrote a lot of shit like this when drunk, sleepy, or in a rush.
I'll go a step further and say that the author likely speaks more than one language, and they were copying this stuff from some site in another language that has grammatical gender. I'm saying this because it explains why the anaphoric references are all over the place.
Outside of the many publications, conferences, symposia, and discussions in the lay media on this topic over multiple decades, they've been completely ignoring it. Shameful.
I think this is this insufferable clickbaiting bullshitter that goes on endless rants without actually saying anything. Pretty sure I've seen another of her videos posted somewhere on Lemmy a while ago that was of equal quality.
Would be quite a plot twist if it resulted that the whole "seizures cure" spiel from electroshock therapy, resulted in it being "electrical waves help the brain to clean itself", and have nothing to do with brain-destroying seizures.
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The papers, all published in the journal Nature, suggest that during sleep, slow electrical waves push the fluid around cells from deep in the brain to its surface.
The new studies come more than a decade after Iliff and Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a Danish scientist, first proposed that the clear fluids in and around the brain are part of a system to wash away waste products.
It turned out that the waves were acting as a signal, synchronizing the activity of neurons and transforming them into tiny pumps that push fluid toward the brain's surface, the team reported in February in the journal Nature.
In a second paper published in the same issue of Nature, a team led by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provided more evidence that slow electrical waves help clear out waste.
In a paper published a few weeks earlier, Kipnis had shown how waste, including amyloid, appeared to be crossing the protective membrane that usually isolates the brain.
So finding ways to help the brain clean itself — perhaps by inducing those slow electrical waves — might prevent a wide array of disorders.
Chimpanzees are likely going to be extinct 2-3 decades from now. Bonobos will be extinct in 4-6 decades. Orangutans will go extinct within 10 to 20 years. Most animals closely related to humans (including most apes & monkeys) are projected to become extinct within a few decades. I do not want to be alive when gorillas go extinct
This is mostly due to the meat trade (apes and monkeys are often killed for meat which is eaten by locals or traded), being affected by the wars in the Congo/Africa, being kidnapped & sold as exotic pets, and habitat loss from human resource harvesting/logging & development. Humans are effectively displacing, enslaving, slaughtering, and cannibalizing their distant cousins
All discoveries use some element(s) of the scientific method.
The entire method in and of itself isn't required to be 100% rigorously applied 100% of the time. However, the method is a starting point and does lead to discovery over time.
While it helps to apply the method to ensure clean and proper discoveries which can, hopefully, be reproduced and investigated, the fact that not all sciences or discoveries apply it rigorously is largely insignificant.
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Macaque monkeys got on better with others in their social groups after a devastating hurricane, according to researchers.Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico.Temperatures are often around 40C so shade is a precious resource for macaques, since tree cover is still far below pre-hurricane levels.Macaques, who are known for being aggressive and competitive, have become more tolerant of one another to get access to scarce shade.
"It's extremely hot, it's not just uncomfortable, but actually dangerous for one's health if you don't manage to lower your body temperature," said Dr Camille Testard, a neuroscience research fellow at Harvard.
The study, which was led by the universities of Pennsylvania and Exeter and published in the journal Science, found that storm damage changed the evolutionary benefits of sharing shade and tolerating others.
"We expected that after the disaster in a more competitive landscape with less shade resources, you would have perhaps more aggression.
We found the opposite pattern," said Dr Testard.Using data collected before and after the hurricane, the researchers examined the strength and number of social ties among macaques.Whether it's food or shade, macaques aren't known for being very good at sharing resources.Due to the increased tolerance, more macaques were able to access scarce shade, which is crucial to their survival.
What really seems to be important, are the risks of not living, heat, stress and getting access to shade," said Professor Lauren Brent, from the University of Exeter.Researchers found that the macaques' increased tolerance spilled over into other aspects of their daily lives.Macaques that had been sharing shade were also spending time together in the mornings, before the heat forced them to seek shade.In effect, the hurricane changed the rules of the game in the monkeys’ society.
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