Approximately two decades after the first pioneering analyses, the study of shape asymmetry
with the methods of geometric morphometrics has matured and is a burgeoning field. New …

What makes a face attractive and why do we have the preferences we do? Emergence of
preferences early in development and cross-cultural agreement on attractiveness challenge …

We present VC3, the first system that allows users to run distributed MapReduce
computations in the cloud while kee** their code and data secret, and ensuring the …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

We introduce a seemingly impossible task: given only an audio clip of someone speaking,
decide which of two face images is the speaker. In this paper we study this, and a number of …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “grip** and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

During human evolutionary history, there were “trade-offs” between expending time and
energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating …

Humans in societies around the world discriminate between potential mates on the basis of
attractiveness in ways that can dramatically affect their lives. From an evolutionary …

Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, M--
oslash--; ller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of symmetry. They advance …