Research on how bacteria adapt to changing environments underlies the contemporary
biological understanding of signal transduction (ST), and ST provides the foundation of the …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

In the years since publication of the first edition of this book, the field of HAS has exploded.
There are now more courses offered at more colleges and universities than ever before …

Ethnographers are social scientists who undertake research and writing about groups of
people by systematically observing and participating (to a greater or lesser degree) in the …

Does metacognition, ie the capacity to form epistemic self-evaluations about one's current
cognitive performance, derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely, at least in part, on …

In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of" green
religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and …

In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human
emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as …