The replication crisis facing the psychological sciences is widely regarded as rooted in
methodological or statistical shortcomings. We argue that a large part of the problem is the …

The purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and
neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situated human brain, called the Hierarchically …

Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

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 …

The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …

Cognitive gadgets are distinctively human cognitive mechanisms–such as imitation, mind
reading, and language–that have been shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution …

This paper addresses theoretical challenges, still relevant today, that arose in the first
decades of the twentieth century related to the concept of the organism. During this period …

Radical lifespan disparities exist in the animal kingdom. While the ocean quahog can
survive for half a millennium, the mayfly survives for less than 48 h. The evolutionary …

Scientific inference typically relies on establishing causation. This is also the case in
evolutionary biology, a discipline charged with providing historical accounts of the properties …

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 …