Today you’ll learn about how fingerprints form, how quickly you can determine whether or not you like a song, and how ancient ancestors to homo sapiens were using tools way earlier than we thought! 

Fingerprint Formation 

• “How fingerprints form was a mystery — until now” by McKenzie Prillaman
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fingerprints-form-mystery
• “The developmental basis of fingerprint pattern formation and variation” by James D. Glover et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00045-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867423000454%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
• “All Patterns Great and Small” By Tina Hesman Saey
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/all-patterns-great-and-small
• “Pigment pas de deux puts stripes on zebrafish” by Tina Hesman Saey
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pigment-pas-de-deux-puts-stripes-zebrafish

I Love This Song

• “Knowing We Like a Song Takes Only Seconds of Listening, New Psychology Research Finds” by James Devitt
  • https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/january/knowing-we-like-a-song-takes-only-seconds-of-listening--new-psyc.html
• “The Whole is Not Different From its Parts: Music Excerpts are Representative of Songs” by Sara J. Philibotte et al.
  • https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/article-abstract/40/3/220/195231/The-Whole-is-Not-Different-From-its-PartsMusic?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Ancient Tools

• “2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools” By Genelle Weule
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-10/fossils-animal-bones-stone-tools-early-hominin-east-africa/101937222
• “Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus” by THOMAS W. PLUMMER et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo7452

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