Daniel Geschwind: UCLA Departments of Human Genetics, Neurology, and PsychiatryWe are interested in understanding how genes influence human cognition and behavior, leading to unique human cognitive specializations, such as language. […]

Nina Jablonski: Penn State Department of AnthropologyHumans are distinguished from other primates by being functionally hairless over most of their bodies. This condition evolved because hairlessness facilitated cooling of the […]

Athena Aktipis: University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyModels such as Maynard Smith’s Haystack model have shown that high rates of movement (i.e., migration, mixing, dispersal) undermine the […]

Ruth Mace: University College London Department of AnthropologyA behavioural ecological approach to human birth rates suggests they should vary according to the costs of raising children to adulthood. Demographers and […]

Devesh Rustagi: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Department of Environmental Policy and EconomicsRecent research suggests that the power of conditional cooperation norm and punishment of norm violators in […]

Aaron Sell: UCSB Department of PsychologyAnger can be understood as a cognitive mechanism designed by natural selection to negotiate conflicts of interest in ways similar to, but distinct from, non-human […]

Greg Hickok: UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences & Center for Cognitive NeuroscienceThere are two ideas regarding how auditory and motor speech systems interact in language processing. A popular view in the […]

Bruce Bridgeman: UC Santa Cruz Department of PsychologyEstimation of slope is an everyday tool for navigating the external world. Previous studies have found that slopes are overestimated more greatly with […]

Steve Frank: UC Irvine & Santa Fe Institute Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyCurrent studies of biological sociality tend to ignore two key factors: the consequences of social traits on […]