The greatest musical hits have increasingly simple and repetitive melodies
Songs are no longer made like they used to be. And this is not only said by music critics who ...
Tag: human evolution
The first work of art was painted more than 50,000 years ago in Indonesia
A drawing of humanoid figures hunting a wild pig is the oldest work of art reported to date: it was ...
What the monkey that threw a cucumber and the Neanderthal girl with Down syndrome reveal about us
Twenty years ago, an experiment was carried out that was as revealing as it was entertaining. Two capuchin monkeys, in ...
The friendship between dogs and humans finds a scientific basis that explains its origin
It is said a lot that it is man's best friend, but not so much that it is the oldest. ...
Twelve dead monkeys and a resurrected grandfather blur the border of the self
This analysis is part of the weekly bulletin of Materia, the science section of EL PAÍS, which is sent every ...
The taboo of friendship among animals, an evolutionary advantage that is not exclusive to humans
I will do and Ellington They were two old males who lived in Kibale National Park, in Uganda. They weren't ...
Mathematics to understand brain asymmetry
Many advances in neuroscience came thanks to careful mathematical analysis. For example, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley used differential equations ...
This is how the gigantopithecus, the largest ape that has ever walked on Earth, disappeared
In 1935, the German anthropologist Ralph von Koenigswald found in a Hong Kong pharmacy what was sold as a dragon's ...
Three Kings Days impossible to remember, why does the brain forget the first childhood memories?
Three Kings Day is magical for the little ones. Although emotion is the main mechanism that the brain has to ...
Yeast, the fungus that kneads human beings
Among organisms formed by a single cell there is a basic division, those that have a differentiated nucleus where the ...
