Mary Bates, PhD

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Two New Posts at AAAS Member Central

Two of my latest blog pieces have been published at AAAS Member Central.Researchers from Emory University are, for the first time, looking inside the brains of domesticated dogs using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Read more!A new study settles a century-long debate among scientists regarding the age of human and mammal remains found at Vero Beach, Florida, in the early 1900s. Bruce MacFadden and colleagues determined all the bones are from the same time period, providing evidence that modern humans coexisted with extinct ice-age beasts 13,000 years ago in the Western Hemisphere. Read more!