Online test estimates ‘Face-Name Memory IQ’
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are
inviting the world to take part in an online experiment that will allow
participants to see how their individual scores on a face-name memory
test compare with those of other test takers.
Washington University anthropologist sets record straight on Neandertal facial length
Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, examines a Neandertal skull.New scientific evidence challenges a common perception that Neandertals — a close evolutionary relative to modern humans that lived 230,000 to 30,000 years ago — possessed exceptionally long faces. Instead, a report authored by Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shows that modern humans are really the “odd man out” when it comes to facial lengths, which drop off dramatically compared with their ancestral predecessors.