Innovation is often assumed to be the work of a talented few, whose products are passed on
to the masses. Here, we argue that innovations are instead an emergent property of our …

Human societies are collective brains. People within every society have cultural brains—
brains that have evolved to selectively seek out adaptive knowledge and socially transmit …

Individuals vary in their cognitive performance. While this variation forms the foundation of
the study of human psychometrics, its broader importance is only recently being recognized …

The prevailing hypotheses for the evolution of cognition focus on either the demands
associated with group living (the social intelligence hypothesis (SIH)) or ecological …

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The vast majority of what is known about the neural underpinnings of human cognition
comes from studies limited to racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically homogeneous …

The evolutionary history of animal cognition appears to involve a few major transitions:
major changes that opened up new phylogenetic possibilities for cognition. Here, we review …

Technological innovations have allowed humans to settle in habitats for which they are
poorly suited biologically. However, our understanding of how humans produce complex …

To further knowledge concerning the nature and nurture of intelligence, we scrutinized how
heritability coefficients vary across specific cognitive abilities both theoretically and …

Cumulative cultural evolution is what 'makes us odd'; our capacity to learn facts and
techniques from others, and to refine them over generations, plays a major role in making …