The field of cognitive neuroscience was transformed by the discovery that exercise induces
neurogenesis in the adult brain, with the potential to improve brain health and stave off the …

Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When
and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had …

A BILL GATES “BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR” A comprehensive account of how energy has
shaped 10,000 years of human history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through …

The high energetic costs of human brain development have been hypothesized to explain
distinctive human traits, including exceptionally slow and protracted preadult growth …

The human brain stands out among mammals by being unusually large. The expensive-
tissue hypothesis explains its evolution by proposing a trade-off between the size of the …

The origins of the genus Homo are murky, but by H. erectus, bigger brains and bodies had
evolved that, along with larger foraging ranges, would have increased the daily energetic …

A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy
in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization …

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 …

Great apes, our closest living relatives, live longer and mature later than most other
mammals and modern humans are even later‐maturing and potentially longer‐lived …

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 …