«These findings demonstrate a single origin of gills that likely corresponds with a key stage in vertebrate evolution: when some of our earliest relatives transitioned from filtering particles out of water pumped through static bodies to actively swimming through the oceans,» says lead author Dr Andrew Gillis, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge's Department of Zoology, and a Whitman Investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, US. (sciencedaily.com)
She notes that this study looked at only static body postures, but together with subsequent experiments — including one in which people watched videos of gymnasts — it offers a possible mechanism for how the brain predicts what will happen a few seconds ahead of what we experience. (scientificamerican.com)