by Christine Kenneally BH | Apr 1, 2011 | Co-operation, Current Affairs, Networks, Web/Tech
If you get into trouble in the Murcia region of Spain and you call 112 (Europe’s 911) from your 3G phone, the dispatcher may remotely switch on your cell phone’s video camera, microphone and speaker and give you a simple directive: point your camera at the...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 8, 2010 | Co-operation, Common sense, Complexity, Demographics, First human..., Food and Drink, Genes, Populations
Since 2004, I’ve spent a lot of time staring at the ceiling thinking about tsunamis and earthquakes. The monster wave that hit Indonesia that year was caused by a earthquake so violent it shifted the axis of the earth a few centimeters. Now I can’t get this out of my...
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 | 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 | Sep 11, 2007 | Chimpanzees, Co-operation
Male chimpanzees in West Africa raid fruit from farms and orchards to share with females. In most cases, the males shared their booty with reproductive females in a food-for-sex swap. PLoS One.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Chimpanzees, Co-operation
Alpha males reward their buddies by giving them sexual access to the most desirable females. Is anyone surprised by this? Current Biology
