Schizophrenia has been an evolutionary paradox: it has high heritability, but it is associated
with decreased reproductive success. The causal genetic variants underlying schizophrenia …

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has garnered interest recently as a powerful
model for the future of neuroscience research. Much of this excitement has centered on the …

Despite considerable interest in the forces shaping the relationship between brain size and
cognitive abilities, it remains controversial whether larger-brained animals are, indeed …

The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much
attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main …

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 is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea,
behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories …

The 'social complexity hypothesis' for communication posits that groups with complex social
systems require more complex communicative systems to regulate interactions and relations …

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death …

Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they
see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms …

Human life histories, as compared to those of other primates and mammals, have at least
four distinctive characteristics: an exceptionally long lifespan, an extended period of juvenile …