Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Shifting from foraging to farming, beginning ~12,000 years ago, changed everything.

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A special Feature section in the Jan. 17 issue of PNAS offers a series of perspectives on the past 12,000 years of human behavior, adaptatio...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Evolution of Peace

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I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who m...
Friday, December 09, 2022

How modern human brains are different from those of other hominids and chimps.

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Work pointed to in the previous post continues to add to the list of behaviors once presumed to be unique to humans that have now been foun...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Third-party punishment by preverbal infants

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From Kanakogi et al. : Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanical Morality

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MindBlog receives articles for commentary from the Cambridge University Journal of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I will pass on the followi...
Thursday, May 05, 2022

Questioning common claims about human brain evolution

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From DeCasien et al. : Highlights New research has questioned or contradicted multiple long-standing claims about human brain evoluti...
Monday, May 02, 2022

The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care

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On the same morning last week that I read a NYTimes essay by Thomas Edsall " The Politics of Fear Show No Sign of Abating " I rece...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The road to our larger brains

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Bertrand et al. address the question of how and why mammals evolved large brain sizes relative to their body mass by characterizing the tim...
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Friday, April 08, 2022

Humans don’t have culture because we’re smart, we’re smart because we have culture.

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The title of this post is a sentence taken from the final paragraph of Henrich's Perspective article in Science on the work of Thompson...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Neurons in the brain that respond mainly to singing

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New work from Norman-Haignere et al. describes a population of cells in our auditory cortex, located between the music and speech-selective...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Expression unleashed: The evolutionary & cognitive foundations of human communication

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I'm passing on the abstract of a dense but interesting article by Christophe Heintz and Thom Scott-Phillips that will be published in B...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Children universally across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways

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From Kanngiesser et al. in PNAS: Humans, as compared with other animals, create and follow conventional norms that determine how we greet ...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

The active grandparent hypothesis

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Lieberman et al. suggest that selection in humans for lifelong physical activity, including during postreproductive years to provision offs...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

What is a DAO? Who needs humans?

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A DAO is a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation. My son pointed out this intriguing and also somewhat terrifying video to me. Like Mark Zuc...
Monday, November 01, 2021

What the mind is - similarities and differences in concepts of mental life in five cultures

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From Weisman et al. , who do a fascinating study of cognitive structures 'from the bottom up', allowing data to give rise to ontolog...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

A debate over stewardship of global collective behavior

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In this post I'm going to pass on the abstract of a PNAS perspective piece by Bak-Coleman et al. , a critique by Cheong and Jones and a...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Seven nuggets on how we confuse ourselves about our brains and our world.

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In a series of posts starting on Nov. 27, 2020 I attempted to abstract and condense the ideas in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s 2017 book “How Emot...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences has accepted an article from Uchiyama et al. , whose abstract I copy below, and invites the submission of comm...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Darwin’s insights: How the evolutionary perspective has come to permeate the social sciences.

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I want to pass on a review article on human evolution by Richerson1,Gavrilets, and de Waal (open source) in a recent issue of Science Magaz...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Can You Have More Than 150 Friends?

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MindBlog has done more than 9 posts over the past 15 years (enter Dunbar in the search box in the left column of this web page) pointing to ...