Ruminants produce edible products and contribute to food security. They house a complex
rumen microbial community that enables the host to digest their plant feed through microbial …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Dominance is a basic property of inheritance systems describing the link between a diploid
genotype at a single locus and the resulting phenotype. Models for the evolution of …

Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of plasma cells.
Despite recent treatment advances, it is still incurable as disease progression is not fully …

Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between
nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including culture, economics …

Our hominin ancestors inevitably encountered and likely ingested psychedelic mushrooms
throughout their evolutionary history. This assertion is supported by current understanding …

Summary The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Helladic (Mycenaean) cultures define the
Bronze Age (BA) of Greece. Urbanism, complex social structures, craft and agricultural …

Consuming the milk of other species is a unique adaptation of Homo sapiens, with
implications for health, birth spacing and evolution. Key questions nonetheless remain …

ABSTRACT I argue that attachment relationships, and particularly secure ones, are
important contexts for social learning and cultural transmission. Bowlby originally treated the …

Relative contributions of pre-existing vs de novo genomic variation to adaptation are poorly
understood, especially in polyploid organisms. We assess this in high resolution using …