John Mitani: University of Michigan Anthropology

Jelmer Eerkens: UC Davis AnthropologyLaboratory experiments and ethnographic studies show that many aspects of human culture, particularly information, can change quickly in the course of transmission. The archaeological record indicates […]

Becky Frank: UCLA AnthropologyThe goal of this project was to examine the dynamics of exchange among female baboons and test predictions derived from a biological market model of grooming. Evolutionary […]

Carel van Schaik: Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of ZurichNaturalistic data on nonhuman primates show that the degree of despotism among males in primate groups is predicted by the degree […]

Sam Bowles: Santa Fe InstituteAltruism -- benefiting fellow group members at a cost to oneself -- and parochialism – hostility toward individuals not of one’s own ethnic, racial or other […]

Carol Padden & Mark Aronoff: UCSD, Stonybrook UWe report here on work we have carried out with colleagues Wendy Sandler and Irit Meir on an emerging sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin […]

Gary Marcus: NYU PsychologyIn fields ranging from reasoning to linguistics, the idea of humans as perfect, rational, optimal creatures is making a comeback – but should it be? Hamlet’s musings […]

Susan Perry: UCLA AnthropologyWhite-faced capuchin monkeys are best known for their innovation and traditions in the domain of social communication; however, social learning appears to play a role in the […]

Debra Lieberman: U of Hawaii PsychologyMechanisms for detecting kin rely on cues that correlated with relatedness in ancestral environments to adaptively regulate mate selection and altruistic effort. For siblings, one […]

Peter Todd: U of Indiana Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychological and Brain SciencesThe choice of a mate is not only one of the most important decisions in our lives, but […]