Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

If social learning is more efficient than independent individual exploration, animals should
learn vital cultural skills exclusively, and routine skills faster, through social learning …

Although much attention has been focused on explaining and describing the diversity of
social grouping patterns among primates,,, less effort has been devoted to understanding …

Summary The Machiavellian Intelligence or Social Brain Hypothesis explains the evolution
of increased brain size as mainly driven by living in complex organized social systems [1–4] …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

We've all heard that a father's involvement enriches the lives of children. But how much have
we heard about how having a child affects a father's life? As Peter Gray and Kermyt …

Humans are literal and figurative kin to other primates, with whom many of us coexist in
diverse social, ecological, symbolic, conflictual, and even hopeful contexts. Anthropogenic …

Human cooperation is unparalleled in the animal world and rests on an altruistic concern for
the welfare of genetically unrelated strangers. The evolutionary roots of human altruism …

Several hypotheses propose that cooperative breeding leads to increased cognitive
performance, in both nonhuman and human primates, but systematic evidence for such a …

Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of
addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all …