The evolution of unusually large brains in some groups of animals, notably primates, has
long been a puzzle. Although early explanations tended to emphasize the brain's role in …

Anthropocene defaunation, the global extinction of faunal species and populations and the
decline in abundance of individuals within populations, has been predominantly …

Recent rapid climatic changes are associated with dramatic changes in phenology of plants
and animals, with optimal timing of reproduction advancing considerably in the northern …

We present the first continent-wide analysis of the population trends of European breeding
birds to show that populations of Afro-Palearctic migrant birds have shown a pattern of …

There are consistent individual differences in human intelligence, attributable to a single
'general intelligence'factor, g. The evolutionary basis of g and its links to social learning and …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much
attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main …

Black carbon (BC) from biomass and fossil fuel combustion alters chemical and physical
properties of the atmosphere and snow albedo, yet little is known about its emission or …

Offspring sex ratios in wild bird populations, and the extent to which they vary from the
equality expected by random genotypic sex determination, have received much recent …

There is much interest in the evolutionary forces that favored the evolution of large brains in
the primate order. The social brain hypothesis posits that selection has favored larger brains …