Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

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 …

The behavioral origins of Homo sapiens can be traced back to the first material culture
produced by our species in Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Beyond this broad …

Previous research suggests that the complex symbolic, technological, and socioeconomic
behaviors that typify Homo sapiens had roots in the middle Pleistocene< 200,000 years ago …

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 …

This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty,
pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched …

Ornaments such as beads are among the earliest signs of symbolic behavior among human
ancestors. Their appearance signals important developments in both cognition and social …

Cueva de los Aviones (southeast Spain) is a site of the Neandertal-associated Middle
Paleolithic of Europe. It has yielded ochred and perforated marine shells, red and yellow …

Powerful categories of evidence for symbolically mediated behaviour, variously described
as 'modern'or 'cognitively modern'human behaviour, are geometric or iconographic …