Innovation is often assumed to be the work of a talented few, whose products are passed on
to the masses. Here, we argue that innovations are instead an emergent property of our …

▪ Abstract Evolutionary trends in human body form provide important context for interpreting
variation among modern populations. Average body mass in living humans is smaller than it …

Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a
common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

The past 200,000 years of human cultural evolution have witnessed the persistent
establishment of behaviors involving innovation, planning depth, and abstract and symbolic …

For most of human history, about 300,000 years, we lived as hunter gatherers in sustainable,
egalitarian communities of a few dozen people. Human life on Earth, and our place within …

In the skeleton, male and female characteristics lie along a continuum of morphologic
configurations and metric values. Size alone is not the best indicator of sex. In contrast …

Paleoneurology concerns the study and analysis of fossil endocasts. Together with cranial
capacity and discrete anatomical features, shape can be analysed to consider the spatial …

"" Theory about intelligence is more fully developed and more mathematically sophisticated
than for almost any other psychological construct. More is known about the underlying …

We explored the effect of introducing prior knowledge into the intermediate level of deep
supervised neural networks on two tasks. On a task we designed, all black-box state-of …