Motion sickness is a complex syndrome that includes many features besides nausea and
vomiting. This review describes some of these factors and points out that under normal …

We propose a population model for Middle Pleistocene Europe that is based on
demographic “sources” and “sinks”. The former were a small number of “core” or populations …

Genetic and paleoanthropological evidence is in accord that today's human population is
the result of a great demic (demographic and geographic) expansion that began …

Recent game-theoretic simulation and analytical models have demonstrated that
cooperative strategies mediated by indicators of cooperative potential, or “tags,” can invade …

In this book, Benoît Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human
evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience …

The prevalence of obesity in modern societies has two major contributory factors—an
environmental change that has happened in historical times and a genetic predisposition …

Diverse developmental abnormalities and anomalous features are evident in the
Pleistocene Homo fossil record, varying from minor but rare dental, vertebral, and carpal …

A haplotype is a multisite haploid genotype at two or more polymorphic sites on the same
chromosome in a defined DNA region. An evolutionary tree of the haplotypes can be …

Archaeology–the study of human cultures through the analysis and interpretation of artifacts
and material remains–continues to captivate and engage people on a local and global level …

Between-group competition in social animals appears to be a prominent selective pressure
shaping the evolution of territoriality and cooperation [1–4]. Evidence for an effect of …