Dear all,
A few links this week, which is great! Keep them coming in…
Judith
3rd year zoologist Connor Butler sent this in (thank you Connor!) a really cool interactive map of the relatedness of Mammals by Imperial College London: http://www.onezoom.org/
PhD student Becks Spake sent this link about slime mould memory (thank you Becks!) http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19846365
GWCT placement student, Michael Hockey
Becks, you may be particularly interested in this (she works on fungi)http://evopropinquitous.tumblr.com/post/34218973532/things-i-learned-as-a-field-biologist-639
The Royal Geographic Society are holding their annual field expedition event 17th-18th Novhttp://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Fieldwork+and+Expeditions/GO+seminars+and+workshops/Explore/Explore.htm
New avian family tree http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/10/scienceshot-a-tree-for-all-birds.html?ref=hp
Why do birds have feathers?http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/10/25/%e2%80%98bird-mimic%e2%80%99-dinosaur-hints-that-wings-evolved-for-show-not-flight/ – reviewhttp://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6106/510 – article
How the fossils were discovered http://discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/25-feathered-dino
Monsters are people too (where do we look at a person’s face?)http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/10/25/rsbl.2012.0850.abstract.html – article
How to eat a triceratops http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-eat-a-triceratops-1.11650
Super-saliva of archer fish http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/20068607 – review
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047867 – article
Neanderthal vs modern humanhttp://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/10/neanderthal_vs_homo_sapiens_who_would_win_in_a_fight.html
Autumnwatch is on this week http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079t1p
Women in Wikipedia http://www.nature.com/news/edit-a-thon-gets-women-scientists-into-wikipedia-1.11636
The importance of Biology http://www.nature.com/news/biology-and-ideology-the-anatomy-of-politics-1.11645
Badger cull stopped, for now… http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/badger-cull-update.html
Send me your links!