Despite sharing a recent common ancestor, humans are surprisingly different from other
great apes. The most obvious discontinuities are related to our cognitive abilities, including …

We propose that plant foods containing high quantities of starch were essential for the
evolution of the human phenotype during the Pleistocene. Although previous studies have …

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last
remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East …

In species in which males care for young, testosterone (T) is often high during mating
periods but then declines to allow for caregiving of resulting offspring. This model may apply …

Some primates, including chimpanzees, throw objects occasionally,, but only humans
regularly throw projectiles with high speed and accuracy. Darwin noted that the unique …

While cooking has long been argued to improve the diet, the nature of the improvement has
not been well defined. As a result, the evolutionary significance of cooking has variously …

Charles Darwin attributed human evolutionary success to three traits. Our social habits and
anatomy were important, he said, but the critical feature was our intelligence, because it led …

Our view of H. erectus is vastly different today than when Pithecanthropus erectus was
described in 1894. Since its synonimization into Homo, views of the species and its …

Social mammals have three basic stages of postnatal development: infant, juvenile, and
adult. Some species also have a brief female post‐reproductive stage. The human life cycle …

The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject
of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in …