No-pressure thumbs could be key to hand evolution

Could Navigation Be the Key to Language?

This article analyses navigation and language parsing as two instances of the same abstract computation, and suggests that the tool needed may have evolved to serve the former task, and was then reused for the latter. Supporting evidence for the idea, based on the authors’ concept of ‘songline’ navigation, is discussed in the context of current linguistic, psychological and neuroscience researc...

Greenlandic gene could be key to beating obesity

Health[1] Health[1]Diabetes [2]Greenland Science Special [3]Health [4]Obesity [5]Denmark [6]Videnskab.dk [7] The Inuit people carry a genetic variant, which increases their risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes. Among the Greenlandic Inuit, scientists have identified a variation of a gene, which could lead the way to a cure for obesity. The ADCY3 variant increases the body mass index (...

Editorial: Could Speciation Across Evolution be Governed by Genetic Switch Codes at Short Tandem Repeats?

How the WTO Could Be Improved

AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

Just lip prints? No: there could be something else.