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 […]
Katie Hinde: UCLA AnthropologyLactation represents the greatest post-natal cost of mothering in primates and numerous studies have established that variation in maternal condition is associated with infant growth, development, health, […]
Gyorgy Gergely: Central European University, Budapest, Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral SciencesHuman minds construct cultural products that form part of the environmental niche to which new generations of […]
Brian Skyrms: UC Irvine Department of Logic & Philosophy of ScienceSender-Receiver games are simple, tractable models of information transmission. They provide a basic setting for the study the evolution of […]
