Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been
recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological …

While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the
diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the …

INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …

Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the
surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propose that language …

The adoption of agriculture triggered a rapid shift towards starch-rich diets in human
populations. Amylase genes facilitate starch digestion, and increased amylase copy number …

If the structure of language vocabularies mirrors the structure of natural divisions that are
universally perceived, then the meanings of words in different languages should closely …

The amount of available digital data for the languages of the world is constantly increasing.
Unfortunately, most of the digital data are provided in a large variety of formats and therefore …

The past decades have seen substantial growth in digital data on the world's languages. At
the same time, the demand for cross-linguistic datasets has been increasing, as witnessed …