Why do humans heal one another? Evolutionary psychology has advanced our
understanding of why humans suffer psychological distress and mental illness. However, to …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast develo** area of natural theology,
written by one of the world's leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological …

Este artigo foi composto a partir da comunicação apresentada no Ciclo de conferências"
Humanos e animais: os limites da humanidade", promovido pelo IEA/USP. Já bastante …

Conscientiousness is a fundamental aspect of human personality, one that is closely linked
with various favorable life outcomes. Despite its importance in humans, conscientiousness …

One the most controversial problems of the Middle Palaeolithic research is the origin of
symbolic behavior and who was responsible–only populations of anatomically modern …

In this paper, we describe a digital scenario where we simulated the emergence of self-
organized symbol-based communication among artificial creatures inhabiting a virtual world …

Mimicry and deception are two important issues in studies about animal communication. The
reliability of animal signs and the problem of the benefits of deceiving in sign exchanges are …

Biosemiotics is a growing field that investigates semiotic processes in the living realm in an
attempt to combine the findings of the biological sciences and semiotics. Semiotic processes …

This book draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and
unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man's distinction, while also …