While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

Hunting and gathering is, evolutionarily, the defining subsistence strategy of our species.
Studying how children learn foraging skills can, therefore, provide us with key data to test …

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 …

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in
today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities …

Teaching is cross-culturally widespread but few studies have considered children as
teachers as well as learners. This is surprising, since forager children spend much of their …

Norms permeate human life. Most of people's activities can be characterized by rules about
what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

In hunter-gatherer societies, women's subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning
and children's social learning but are understudied relative to men's activities. To …

High-fidelity transmission of information through imitation and teaching has been proposed
as necessary for cumulative cultural evolution. Yet, it is unclear when and for which …

Prior work suggests that modern gender bias might have historical roots but has not been
able to demonstrate long-term persistence of this bias due to a lack of historical data. We …