Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin's finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...

"This book arose proximally out of a session at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society annual meeting that was held at University College London in 2001"--Preface. STRI copy purchased with funds ...

As a spirits brand founder who works closely with bartenders, I’ve observed a critical shift in consumer preferences that many bars are missing: the demand for quality ingredients in shots and mixed ...

A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...

This post is in response to How Culture Makes Us Smarter By Steve Stewart-Williams Ph.D. Are we big-brained mammals who have out-evolved ourselves? 'The evidence for the hypothesis that cultural ...

Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human cultural know-how grew through a long, measured shift from casual ...

Culture grows from a simple state to a complex system. Source: Robert Atkinson Culture is like an organism that grows from a simple state to a complex system. A holistic view shows that the evolution ...