The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

Names: Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 1946–author. Title: Father time: a natural history of men and
babies/Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press,[2024] …

Research in African ape sanctuaries has emerged as an important context for our
understanding of comparative cognition and behavior. While much of this work has focused …

Birth attendance has been proposed as a distinguishing feature of humans (Homo sapiens)
and it has been linked to the difficulty of the delivery process in our species. Here, we …

The question of whether men are predisposed to war runs hot in contemporary scholarship
and online discussion. Within this debate, chimpanzee behavior is often cited to explain …

Highlights•Bonobos and chimpanzees discriminate faces of familiar and unfamiliar
conspecifics.•Great apes devote greater social attention to familiar members of the dominant …

Competitive relationships among conspecifics have a host of health and reproductive
correlates that have important evolutionary consequences. There is substantial variation …

Our closest living relatives are two species in the genus Pan: bonobos and chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees are further divided into four subspecies. While there are a number of …

Humans have remarkable adaptations for processing and participating in intricately complex
social groups. Foundational among them are our abilities to identify and differentiate …