Humans are a cultural species, constantly navigating a complex web of culturally bound
practices, norms, and worldviews. This article provides a brief overview of the relatively …

Frames of reference are coordinate systems used to compute and specify the location of
objects with respect to other objects. These have long been thought of as innate concepts …

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world
makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific …

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, chief among which is that it does not require the …

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This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our
knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott …

Virtual environments allow individuals to dramatically alter their self-representation. More
important, studies have shown that people infer their expected behaviors and attitudes from …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

Psychological universals, or core mental attributes shared by humans everywhere, are a
foundational postulate of psychology, yet explicit analysis of how to identify such universals …

Monitoring of biodiversity and resource use by professional scientists is often costly and
hard to sustain, especially in developing countries, where financial resources are limited …