by Christine Kenneally BH | Oct 5, 2009 | Altruism, Baboons, Chimpanzees, Co-operation, Complexity, Evolution, Genes, Social complexity/connection
Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casual...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 20, 2009 | Plasticity
You were 37, you'd had two harrowing bouts with breast cancer, and you'd reached critical levels of ennui in your magazine editor's job (the constant promotional parties, the fancy shoes, and the endless supply of giveaway moisturizers). Then, you were...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jun 21, 2009 | Evolution, First human..., Food and Drink, Men, women & language, Prehistoric humans
I Cook, Therefore I Am. How dropping food in fire made us human. Slate
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jun 21, 2009 | Co-operation, Evolution, First human..., Men, women & language, Motherese, Prehistoric humans
WHY is it that 20th-century physicists could ask some of the most grandiose questions in science, but if a researcher wondered aloud where language came from, the response was derisive at best. Not only can you not answer the question, they were told, you...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Dec 3, 2008 | Ants, Humans, Social complexity/connection
If you took a planet and a handful of genes, you could pose some great questions about human nature and then run experiments to answer them. Instead of asking how much altruism, cooperation, creativity, or any other human trait is hard-wired, you could adjust the...
