It has been suggested that the evolution of language might be “the hardest problem in
science”(Christiansen & Kirby, 2003, p. 1). Part of the difficulty is that language has long …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us
uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes …

Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin
(henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour …

The emergence of technology has been suggested to coincide with scarcity of staple
resources that led to innovations in the form of tool-assisted strategies to diversify or …

The parallel evolution of increased sensorimotor intelligence in humans and capuchins has
been linked to the cognitive and manual demands of seasonal extractive faunivory. This …

Where We Stand Field workers—scientists of animal (including human!) behavior in nature—
have long been fascinated by wild chimpanzees. A person who once has studied wild …

Geographical variation in behaviour may be best explained in terms of culture if ecological
and genetic explanations can be excluded. However, ecological conditions and genetic …

Little is known about the behavior of chimpanzees living in savanna‐woodlands, although
they are of particular interest to anthropologists for the insight they can provide regarding the …

The social structure of primates has recently been shown to influence the composition of
their microbiomes. What is less clear is how primate microbiomes might in turn influence …