Definitions of our species as unique within the hominin clade have tended to focus on
differences in capacities for symbolism, language, social networking, technological …

The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often
been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that …

During evolution, there have been several major changes in the way that genetic information
is organized and transmitted from one generation to the next. These transitions include the …

What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at
long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative …

Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist
Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to …

This book is about movement. It is about the necessity of incorporating movement in our
epistemological and metaphysical investigations of the animate world from the very …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

The social anthropology of death 21 Cross-cultural generalizations and the New
Archaeology's search for middle range theory 27 Funerary practices: agency, power and …

Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground
between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological …

Two sites of the Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic of Iberia, dated to as early as
approximately 50,000 years ago, yielded perforated and pigment-stained marine shells. At …