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A collaborative team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which runs the…
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Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion -- from walking upright on…
Recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over long periods of time is crucial to…