Cortical folding is a hallmark of many, but not all, mammalian brains. The degree of folding
increases with brain size across mammals, but at different scales between orders and …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Relative brain size has long been considered a reflection of cognitive capacities and has
played a fundamental role in developing core theories in the life sciences. Yet, the notion …

Dangerous Crossings offers an interpretation of the impassioned disputes that have arisen
in the contemporary United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of …

Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while,
however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance …

The human brain has often been viewed as outstanding among mammalian brains: the most
cognitively able, the largest-than-expected from body size, endowed with an overdeveloped …

In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how
empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans. Are we our …

Abstract We implemented Machine Learning (ML) techniques to advance the study of sperm
whale (Physeter macrocephalus) bioacoustics. This entailed employing Convolutional …

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human
emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …