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Why did language evolve?
Language is important to us modern humans so asking why it evolved seems like a silly question. After all, surely we can think of numerous benefits of language that drove its evolution in our ancestor… more →
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Why did language evolve?
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Language is important to us modern humans so asking why it evolved seems like a silly question. Afte … more →
Monkeys and mirrors: are monkeys self-aware?
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wrote 1 month ago: I used to have a mirror on the back of my bedroom door until some rather aggressive knocking caused … more →
How smart were our fire-taming ancestors?
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wrote 1 month ago: The discovery of fire was a key moment in the human prehistory. With fire our ancestors would’ve bee … more →
Why Our Brains Are Big
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wrote 3 months ago: This post first appeared at The Advance Apes on 1/31/13 One of the most important traits we’ve … more →
Language And Control
wrote 7 months ago: How Language Controls Your Thinking Development The evolution of the predictive capacity of the anim … more →
Competition makes apes take greater risks
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wrote 8 months ago: A “farmer curve” is a graph which charts the chance of an event occurring against how ba … more →
Geniuses Among Us
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wrote 9 months ago: Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? | Video on TED.com. If the brain is really evol … more →
Neanderthal technology and intelligence
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wrote 9 months ago: For many years people have been attempting to identify differences between Homo sapiens and Homo nea … more →
Earth's orbit and human evolution
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wrote 10 months ago: A while ago I wrote “the children of climate change,” a post discussing research about h … more →
Wernicke's and Broca's area in chimps - Supplementary Sunday
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wrote 10 months ago: This weeks top rated post is “humans have giant chimp brains” with a grand total of 3 up … more →
Humans have giant chimp brains
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wrote 10 months ago: Humans specialise in being smart. It wasn’t our sharp teeth that allowed us to rise to dominan … more →
We know nothing about the evolution of handedness
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wrote 11 months ago: Jim Thomeson – who gets a brofist for being one of the most frequent commenter here – as … more →
Mutation helped human brain evolve
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wrote 1 year ago: There is a correlation between the brain size of an individual and their body size: a larger animal … more →
Meat eating led to faster hominin reproduction
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wrote 1 year ago: Increased meat consumption was an important part of human evolution. In 7 million years we went from … more →
Caring neanderthals
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wrote 1 year ago: In The Descent of Man Charles Darwin laid out his thoughts regarding humans. At length he discussed … more →
A brief (pre)history of art: Part 1
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wrote 1 year ago: The facts of this post are currently disputed An appreciation of aesthetics seems to be an old trait … more →
The emergence of modern behaviour
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wrote 1 year ago: Whilst Homo sapiens is defined by its biology, if one were forced to identify their most important a … more →
The earliest artistic neanderthals?
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wrote 1 year ago: Modern humans are almost defined by their behaviours, making the development of modern behaviour a f … more →
Neanderthals had differently organised brains
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wrote 1 year ago: Homo neanderthalensis is not a species to be dismissed lightly. They weren’t especially dumb, … more →
