Modern human need for medicines is so extensive that it is thought to be a deep
evolutionary behavior. There is abundant evidence from our Paleolithic and later prehistoric …

Disgust is an adaptive system hypothesized to have evolved to reduce the risk of becoming
sick. It is associated with behavioural, cognitive and physiological responses tuned to allow …

Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically
due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such …

The importance of Southeast Asia's tropical peat swamp forests for biodiversity is becoming
increasingly recognised. Information on species presence within peatland areas is scant …

Six new (1, 2, 6, 8, 13, and 20) and twenty previously isolated (3–5, 7, 9–12, 14–19, and 21–
26) steroids featuring thirteen different carbocycle motifs were isolated from the organic …

The role of plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) in shaping the feeding decisions, habitat
suitability, and reproductive success of herbivorous mammals has been a major theme in …

Humans possess a perhaps unique type of culture among primates called cumulative
culture. In this type of culture, behavioural forms cumulate changes over time, which …

Self-medication refers to the process by which a host suppresses or prevents the deleterious
effects of parasitism and other causes of illness via behavioural means 1. It has been …

Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative eye disease that results in retinal ganglion cell loss and
ultimately loss of vision. Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is the most common known risk …

Animal self‐medication is thought to provide an adaptive advantage, as species would
actively respond to a disease state or homeostatic imbalances. In wild nonhuman primates …