Jacinta Beehner: University of Michigan Department of Anthropology The arrival of a new dominant male can be a tumultuous time for females in a primate social group – particularly when this male is likely to be infanticidal. Females of many taxa where infanticide occurs have developed counterstrategies to this threat. In sharp contrast with the […]

Kirk Lohmueller: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyIt is commonly quoted that any two humans are identical at 99.9% of their three billion DNA letters. However, this statement also means that there are roughly three million positions where any two genomes are different. Many such variants have been accumulating throughout hundreds of thousands of […]

Morteza Dehghani: USC Brain and Creativity Institute, ARTIS Research FellowThe availability of vast and seemingly insurmountable volumes of human-related data has provided an unprecedented opportunity to study human cognition with range and detail previously not imaginable. An enormous amount of such data, however, is in the form of human generated text, and cannot be analyzed […]