Another PNAS study to share with y’all, this time I caught the announcement via ScienceNOW. ScienceNOW says the paper is out today, but I can’t find it. Go figure. So all I got to run with is this news report.
The authors of this paper are Adam Gordon, Lisa Nevell, and Bernard Wood. They compared the [...]
March 17, 2008
An upcoming study on Homo floresiensis says they are a separate species
March 17, 2008
Weaver, Roseman and Stringer back at it with Neandertals, Natural Selection and a time of divergence
Today’s early issue of PNAS includes a paper by Tim Weaver, Charles Roseman and Chris Stringer who revisit the chance or natural selection issue in regards to Neandertal and modern human speciation. You may remember they published a paper in August of 2007, in which they basically concluded that natural selection really didn’t have anything [...]
March 17, 2008
Voice for the Voiceless
Michael Callahan of Ambient Corp. in Champaign, Ill. and the University of Illinois has recently introduced The Audeo, a thought-to-speech interfacing device which acquires and converts neurological signals into vocalizations. The device allows users to communicate with a computer much in the way voice recognition software does. However, instead of encrypting wave patterns [...]
