The Evolutionary Benefits of Cooperation
Why do we look after each other’s children, feed each other, and cover for each other at work?
The Rise of Culture and the Fall of Testosterone
In a paper published in the journal Current Anthropology, a team of researchers funded by The Leakey Foundation explore the biological basis of the technology boom and expansion of culture that happened 50,000 years ago.
DURHAM, N.C. — Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that making art
Video: Laurie Santos – The Evolution of Irrationality
If you missed Laurie Santos’ SciCafe presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, we have a video of her presentation.
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The ancestral history of humans and primates is extensive, but can it explain even our financial choices? New experiments in “monkeynomics” demonstrate that monkeys make some of the same silly financial choices we do — but sometimes
From the Field: Oliver Paine, Cradle Nature Reserve, South Africa
Recent studies have suggested that C4 plants played a larger role in early hominin diets than previously believed, thus making a systematic effort to determine the costs and benefits of C4 plants for hominin consumption that much more important in helping to model early hominin dietary behavior.
The following is a short update from Leakey Foundation spring 2014 grantee Oliver
From the Field: E.A. Quinn, Nubri, Nepal
Leakey Foundation grantee E.A. Quinn of Washington University sent this video field report from her research in Nubri, Nepal. Her project investigates the associations between adaptation to a high altitude environment, mother’s milk, and infant growth. It was filmed by her colleague Geoff Childs.
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