Three of the most fundamental questions in biology are how individual cells differentiate to
form tissues, how tissues function in a coordinated and flexible fashion and which gene …

The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the
history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an …

The human brain has undergone substantial change since humans diverged from
chimpanzees and the other great apes,. However, the genetic and developmental programs …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of
impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to …

Highlights•Early caregiving adversity is associated with poor mental health
outcomes.•Across species, adversity accelerates the developmental trajectory of emotion …

The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological
phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the'struggle for life'. By contrast, the …

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …