Humanity has regarded itself as intellectually superior to other species for millennia, yet
human cognitive uniqueness remains poorly understood. Here, we evaluate candidate traits …

What are the origins of intelligent behavior? The demands associated with living in complex
social groups have been the favored explanation for the evolution of primate cognition in …

Individual people differ in their ability to reason, solve problems, think abstractly, plan and
learn. A reliable measure of this general ability, also known as intelligence, can be derived …

Individuals vary in their cognitive performance. While this variation forms the foundation of
the study of human psychometrics, its broader importance is only recently being recognized …

Culture suffuses all aspects of human life. It shapes our minds and bodies and has provided
a cumulative inheritance of knowledge, skills, institutions, and artifacts that allows us to truly …

Culture (behaviour based on socially transmitted information) is present in diverse animal
species, yet how it interacts with genetic evolution remains largely unexplored. Here, we …

Across the animal kingdom, we see remarkable variation in brain size. This variation has
even increased over evolutionary time. Traditionally, studies aiming to explain brain size …

By the mid-twentieth century (thus following the 'Modern Synthesis' in evolutionary biology),
the behavioural sciences offered only the sketchy beginnings of a scientific literature …

For the past two decades, behavioural ecologists have documented consistent individual
differences in behavioural traits within species and found evidence for animal “personality” …

Discoveries about the cultures and cultural capacities of the great apes have played a
leading role in the recognition emerging in recent decades that cultural inheritance can be a …