Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

It has been more than 100 years since Paul Ehrlich reported that various water-soluble dyes
injected into the circulation did not enter the brain. Since Ehrlich's first experiments, only a …

Control of fire is one of the most important technological innovations within the evolution of
humankind. The archaeological signal of fire use becomes very visible from around 400,000 …

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has
assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world. Most attention …

What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at
long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative …

Group size covaries with relative neocortical volume in nonhuman primates. This regression
equation predicts a group size for modern humans very similar to that for hunter-gatherer …

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is
concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

Environmental enrichment is a simple and effective means of improving animal welfare in
any species–companion, farm, laboratory and zoo. For many years, it has been a popular …