This article has two goals. The first is to assess, in the face of accruing reports on the
ingenuity of great ape tool use, whether and in what sense human tool use still evidences …

Spontaneous tool use and sensorimotor intelligence in Cebus were observed to determine
whether tool use is discovered fortuitously and learned by trial-and-error or, rather, whether …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

This article is a synopsis of a triarchic theory of human intelligence. The theory comprises
three subtheories: a contextual subtheory, which relates intelligence to the external world of …

The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

Recent decades have seen a number of influential attacks on the comparative psychology of
learning and intelligence. Two specific charges have been that the use of distantly related …

During the first two years of human life a common neural substrate (roughly Broca's area)
underlies the hierarchical organization of elements in the development of speech as well as …

During the first two years of human life a common neural substrate (roughly Broca's area)
underlies the hierarchical organization of elements in the development of speech as well as …

Since the Industrial Revolution, human societies have experienced high and sustained rates
of economic growth. Recent explanations of this sudden and massive change in economic …