Do acts of kindness improve the well-being of the actor? Recent advances in the
behavioural sciences have provided a number of explanations of human social, cooperative …

Dispersal costs can be classified into energetic, time, risk and opportunity costs and may be
levied directly or deferred during departure, transfer and settlement. They may equally be …

What is morality? And to what extent does it vary around the world? The theory of “morality-
as-cooperation” argues that morality consists of a collection of biological and cultural …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

Biological responses to climate change have been widely documented across taxa and
regions, but it remains unclear whether species are maintaining a good match between …

Abstract Morality-as-Cooperation (MAC) is the theory that morality is a collection of
biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social …

What is morality, where does it come from, and how does it work? Scholars have struggled
with these questions for millennia. But we now have a scientific answer. The theory of …

Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects
for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this …

The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a small number of major evolutionary
transitions. These transitions have been characterized by individuals that could previously …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …