398 search results for “dual evolution” in the Student website
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Mathilde Mekenkamp-KortierFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Amanda HenryFaculty of Archaeology
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Femke ReidsmaFaculty of Archaeology
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Saskia RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Nansheline DaalFaculty of Science
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Jos WinninkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ilse KamerlingFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition. A paper recently published…
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Johan MemelinkFaculty of Science
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Janneke VaderAdministration and Central Services
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Ruben Verheul
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Katharina RiebelFaculty of Science
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Igor DjakovicFaculty of Archaeology
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Alexander WilkinsonFaculty of Archaeology
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Karel KuipersFaculty of Archaeology
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Areti LeventiFaculty of Archaeology
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Alexander VerpoorteFaculty of Archaeology
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Harry BerghuisFaculty of Archaeology
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Anastasia NikulinaFaculty of Archaeology
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Jakub SenesiFaculty of Archaeology
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Wei Ping YoungFaculty of Archaeology
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Jingwen LiaoFaculty of Archaeology
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Emma DevereuxFaculty of Archaeology
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Mark DechesneFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Tony van der Togt
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Arieke Willemstein
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language
Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.
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Embryos of the bitterling perform a somersault. This teaches us something new about natural selection
Even embryos can become embroiled in an evolutionary arms race with another species. Leiden biologists demonstrate this with larvae of the rosy bitterling that parasitize the gills of freshwater mussels. They published their research on February 19 in PNAS.
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Arie-Jan KwakFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Roméo Dallaire on “How a better world is possible”: Cooperation between Science and Practice
Leiden University’s Institute for Security and Global Affairs and Dual PhD Centre jointly organize an online lecture on 23 April, 15.00 hrs by Cleveringa Professor General Roméo Dallaire on “How a better world is possible”: Cooperation between Science and Practice.
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Successful Conference on International Cyber Security 2022
The Hague Program on International Cyber Security focuses on the various modes of governance that states and other actors can bring into play to deal with and shape the strategic challenges in the digital environment. This years conference focused on international cyber security and the role of the…
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Sandrine GalloisFaculty of Archaeology
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Bjørn Peare BartholdyFaculty of Archaeology
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Elly TaalFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Omer KaracaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Pieter SlamanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Yvonne KleistraFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Johannes TrompFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Petra EversFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Can birds imitate Star Wars robot? Yes – and some are surprisingly good at it
Scientists have discovered that starlings and parrots can imitate the complex sounds of Star Wars droid R2-D2 remarkably well. Their study reveals how the structure of a bird’s vocal organ determines its vocal abilities – and how citizen science helps uncover it.