Neonicotinoids are a class of insecticides that exert their effect through a specific action on
neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). The success of these insecticides is …

The prefrontal cortex is so important to human beings that, if deprived of it, our behaviour is
reduced to action-reactions and automatisms, with no ability to make deliberate decisions …

A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what
makes us human Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and …

FOXP2, initially identified for its role in human speech, contains two nonsynonymous
substitutions derived in the human lineage. Evidence for a recent selective sweep in Homo …

In humans, individuals' social setting determines which and how language is acquired.
Social seclusion experiments show that sociality also guides vocal development in …

Longlisted for the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “Every new book by Frans
de Waal is a cause for excitement, and this one is no different. A breath of fresh air in the …

Methylation levels have been shown to change with age at sites across the human genome.
Change at some of these sites is so consistent across individuals that it can be used as an …

Recursive procedures that allow placing a vocal signal inside another of a similar kind
provide a neuro-computational blueprint for syntax and phonology in spoken language and …

Areas 44 and 45 have been identified in non-human primates as homologs of the human
Broca region. Distribution of large and smaller pyramids and the ventro-lateral localization in …

Dance is an icon of human expression. Despite astounding diversity around the world's
cultures and dazzling abundance of reminiscent animal systems, the evolution of dance in …