Why a species as successful as Homo sapiens should spend so much time in fiction, in
telling one another stories that neither side believes, at first seems an evolutionary riddle …

Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical
activities pre-dates even the earliest-known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen …

This paper defends a gestural origins hypothesis about the evolution of enhanced
communication and language in the hominin lineage. The paper shows that we can develop …

In brain and behaviour, gustation, and olfaction are closely linked to emotional processing.
This paper shows that similarly, words associated with taste and smell, such as “pungent” …

Until recently, human nonverbal vocalisations such as cries, laughs, screams, moans, and
groans have received relatively little attention in the human behavioural sciences. Yet these …

Most of what we know about teaching comes from research among people living in large,
politically and economically stratified societies with formal education systems and highly …

The significance of teaching to the evolution of human culture is under debate. We
contribute to the discussion by using a quantitative, cross-cultural comparative approach to …

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is
conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book …

Al considerar las relaciones prospectivas entre la música y el pensamiento evolutivo es
necesario articular claramente a qué nos referimos cuando usamos el término 'música'. Las …