Since the last common ancestor shared by modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, the
lineage leading to Homo sapiens has undergone a substantial change in brain size and …

Macaque monkeys are widely used in order to understand the mechanisms of the human
brain. But humans have capacities not found in monkeys, and their brains differ in important …

Can chimpanzees learn the reputation of strangers indirectly by observation? Or are such
stable behavioral attributions made exclusively by first-person interactions? To address this …

The rise of comparative genomics and related technologies has added important new
dimensions to the study of human evolution. Our knowledge of the genes that underwent …

What, if anything, is special about human imitation? An evaluation of enculturated apes'
imitation skills, a “best case scenario” of non-human apes' imitation performance, reveals …

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Collaboration between human neuropsychology and comparative neuroscience has
generated invaluable contributions to our understanding of human brain evolution and …

Much recent comparative work has been devoted to exploring what nonhuman primates
understand about physical causality. However, few laboratory experiments have attempted …

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The Evolution of Human Cleverness presents a unique introduction to the way human
cognitive abilities have evolved. The book comprises a series of mini-essays on distinct …