Apes Say Hello, Life on Snowball Earth, Learn Twice as Fast

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

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Learn about non-human animals that say hello and goodbye; life on Snowball Earth; and how to learn skills twice as fast.

Apes use their own form of hello and goodbye, the first time we've seen that in non-human animals by Steffie Drucker

Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Neumann, C., Pajot, A., Perrenoud, L., Guéry, J.-P., Rossano, F., & Genty, E. (2021). Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes. IScience, 102872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102872
Like humans, apes communicate to start and end social interactions. (2021, August 11). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924594
Schultz, I. (2021, August 11). Bonobos Appear to Say “Hello” and “Goodbye” to Each Other. Gizmodo; Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/bonobos-appear-to-say-hello-and-goodbye-to-each-other-1847464864
Conor Feehly. (2021). Apes Have Been Observed Starting And Ending Interactions Just Like Humans Do. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/apes-observed-using-purposeful-signals-to-start-and-end-interactions

Life survived on "Snowball Earth" despite the ice; a new study says Earth's orbit explains why by Briana Brownell

Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/uos-cie070721.php
Mitchell, R. N., Gernon, T. M., Cox, G. M., Nordsvan, A. R., Kirscher, U., Xuan, C., Liu, Y., Liu, X., & He, X. (2021). Orbital forcing of ice sheets during snowball Earth. Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24439-4
Buis, NASA’s, A. (2021, February 24). Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth’s Climate. Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/

Scientists Found a Technique That Can Help You Learn Skills Twice as Fast by Joanie Faletto first aired April 26, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/freezer-burn-science-a-giant-flying-reptile-and-ho

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0:00.0	The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure.
0:03.5	Do we have to go home today?
0:05.5	sighed Anne.
0:06.5	I agree said Dick.
0:08.0	Even Timmy looks sad.
0:09.5	Cheer up everyone.
0:11.5	Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday
0:17.0	Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway.
0:24.5	Adventures start here.
0:26.0	Selected routes turn supply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare.
0:30.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:37.3	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody goth. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn
0:41.7	about the first time we've seen a non-human animal use a form of hello and goodbye,
0:46.7	how our planets orbit helped life survive back in the days of Snowball Earth, and a technique that could
0:52.3	help you master certain skills twice as fast.
0:55.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:57.0	If you ran into an acquaintance on the street,
1:01.0	you'd probably say hello before launching into a conversation, and you'd probably also say goodbye when it was over.
1:08.1	To do otherwise would be rude. Well for the first time, scientists have discovered apes following their own unwritten rules of
1:16.6	politeness. It turns out that our primate cousins use versions of hello and goodbye too.
1:23.5	That's a big deal.
1:25.4	For this study, scientists wanted to find out
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