Ah, There is hope for us yet
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Diana Tomchick < [email protected]> wrote: > From this week's Nature magazine. > > --------------------------------------------------- > > Hominin explorers were poor planners > > Nature 507, 277 (20 March 2014) doi:10.1038/507277d > Published online 19 March 2014 > > Hominin migrations, such as those out of Africa, might have been led by > individuals with low levels of foresight. > > A team led by Colin Wren at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, > modelled the migratory behaviour of individuals, based on the complexity of > their environments and their cognitive ability to assess and seek out > better environments. > > The model predicted that those with poorer foresight were more likely to > stumble on a better habitat, and therefore disperse into new areas. > Furthermore, homogeneous environments fostered exploration because the more > constant level of resources allowed explorers to travel further than those > in a more heterogeneous setting. > > J. Hum. Evol. http://doi.org/rwd (2014) > > ------------------------------------------------- > > I wonder if they were good cavers? > > Diana > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Diana R. Tomchick > Professor > University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center > Department of Biophysics > 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. > Rm. ND10.214A > Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A. > Email: [email protected] > 214-645-6383 (phone) > 214-645-6353 (fax) > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > UT Southwestern Medical Center > The future of medicine, today. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
