Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? A Fearsome Beast in Tales Around the World
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There are many stock characters that are present in folk stories, fairy tales, and legends from all over the world. However…
There are many stock characters that are present in folk stories, fairy tales, and legends from all over the world. However…
Accompanying the new PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary Collection: Interdisciplinary Research, PLOS ONE Senior Editor Renee Hoch…
Long long ago, you might have heard the story of ATU 333 – though you’ll probably know it by its more usual title: ‘Little Red…
Using techniques from evolutionary biology, scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age. Ed Yong in The Atlantic…
This is a guest post by Christine Cuskley TL;DR: Please and thank you play this thing for science. Insofar as the field of…
Uma nova rodada de gaiata ciência.Da Silva, ER et al. 2014. "Os aracnídeos como inspiração para personagens dos universos…
Research catalyzes research, which catalyzes more research… At PLOS, we’re connecting the dots between our publications…
Image Credit: Yutaka…
Aprovechando que tengo un poco de tiempo, quería comentar un artículo que me pareció interesante por la originalidad y por las…
Jamie Tehrani has a very imaginative paper in PLOS ONE on The Phylogenetics of Little Red Riding Hood: Researchers have long…
An interesting, methodologically innovative paper by Jamie Terhani in PLoS One on the phylogeny of "Little Red Riding Hood."Abstr…
A couple of weeks ago we received an unexpected influx of visitors to this blog, being directed here by at article at the NBC…
This month, medical topics dominated our High Five list. Some papers that received the most attention came from the New England…
El análisis filogenético es el método que usan los biólogos para inferir las relaciones evolutivas entre las especies. Este métod…
We in the Western world are not the only ones who grow up with the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Stories about young…
Victoria Turk explains how anthropologist Jamshid Tehrani is using the tools of evolutionary science to discover the origins of…
Tropical Cyclone Bingiza, Feb. 13, 2011. Flickr/NASA Goddard Space Flight…
One of the ornaments that will come down from the attic in the next few weeks has a fairy wearing a blue gown on it; she’s…
‘Saxophone lung‘ does not sound pleasant. I have a soft-spot for Ice-Age megafauna: here’s the Woolly Rhino! ‘Tyrannosaur…
Photo via Flickr/kosmoseleevike A British researcher has used techniques associated with evolution to trace not the origins…
Brothers Grimm may have popularized the tale but they certainly didn't win any prizes for originality
Photo: Arthur…
Figure 4 from Tehrani 2013. The result of a network analysis among fairy tales. The large number of well spaced network…
According to Durham University anthropologist Dr Jamshid Tehrani, evolutionary analysis can be used to study similarities among…
You’re everything a big bad wolf could want… This is cool as shit. Thanks to Lee Dugatkin for sharing on Facebook. Jamshid…