The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much
attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main …

Current evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in
East Africa. Over the last two decades, there has been intensive work undertaken to …

The behavioral origins of Homo sapiens can be traced back to the first material culture
produced by our species in Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Beyond this broad …

Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and
interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

Stone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution evidence of
behavioral change over human evolution, but their implications for cognitive evolution have …

Previous research has identified morphological differences between the brains of
Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs). However, studies using endocasts …

Increasing body and brain size constitutes a key macro-evolutionary pattern in the hominin
lineage, yet the mechanisms behind these changes remain debated. Hypothesized drivers …

Existing approaches within leadership studies often share a bias towards industrialized
societies and lack broader cross-cultural and ethological reference. Meanwhile, cross …

Quantifying phenotypic evolutionary rates and their variation across phylogenetic trees is a
major issue in evolutionary biology. A number of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM …