Long-term relationships are essential for the psychological wellbeing of humans and many
animals. Positive emotions and affective experiences (eg, romantic or platonic love) seem to …

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where
a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material …

Tool use is considered a driving force behind the evolution of brain expansion and
prolonged juvenile dependency in the hominin lineage. However, it remains rare across …

Fossil endocasts record features of brains from the past: size, shape, vasculature, and
gyrification. These data, alongside experimental and comparative evidence, are needed to …

Brain size variability in primates has been attributed to various domain-specific socio-
ecological factors. A recently published large-scale study of short-term memory abilities in …

Response facilitation has often been portrayed as a “low level” category of social learning,
because the demonstrator's action, which is already in the observer's repertoire …

Science is based on ideas that might be true or false in describing reality. In order to discern
between these two, scientists conduct studies that can reveal evidence for an idea, ie …

A prominent body of research spanning disciplines has been focused on the potential
underlying role for oxytocin in the social signatures of monogamous mating bonds …

Billions of animals across many taxa are extensively farmed, with critical impacts on animal
welfare. Societal efforts to reduce animal suffering lack rigorous and systematic approaches …

The educability model is a computational model that has been recently proposed to describe
the cognitive capability that makes humans unique among existing biological species on …