Evidence suggests that there are differences in the capacity for empathy between males and
females. However, how deep do these differences go? Stereotypically, females are …

Prosociality and acts of altruism are defined as behaviours which benefit another with either
no gain or some immediate cost to the self. To understand the evolutionary origins of these …

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Food sharing is relatively widespread across the animal kingdom, but research into the
socio-ecological factors affecting this activity has predominantly focused on primates. These …

Controlled studies that focus on intraspecific cooperation tasks have revealed striking
similarities, but also differences, in abilities across taxa as diverse as primates, fish, and …

Social tolerance is generally treated as a stable, species-specific characteristic. Recent
research, however, has questioned this position and emphasized the importance of …

Food transfers are often hypothesised to have played a role in the evolution of cooperation
amongst humans. However, they also occur in non-human primates, though no consensus …

Research in comparative cognition on allegedly uniquely human capacities considers the
identification of these human capacities in other species as one of their main points of …

As our closest living relatives, comparisons of the social lives and behavioural ecologies of
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) provide relevant insights into …

A variety of studies on food sharing elucidate both its ultimate and proximate functions in
non-human primates, especially in Pan. For chimpanzees, food sharing serves as a means …