Richard Coss Argues Neanderthals Didn’t Make Art Because They Were Inferior Hunters
In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Richard Coss, a professor emeritus of psychology, …
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No, Neanderthals Didn’t Give Us Schizophrenia
Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …
Does Being Altruistic Or Being A “Bad-Boy” May Make You More Attractive?
Dienekes shared the abstract to a paper that seems to completely contradict an earlier study. It is pretty evident from …
A Review of the “What does it mean to be human?” panel at the 2008 World Science Festival
Wired Science shared some news of an interesting panel titled, “What it means to be human” held at this year’s …
Michael Tomasello on How Humans Are Unique
Michael Tomasello, a well known comparative psychologist, has a column in today’s New York Times where he writes on, “How …
The sexiness of facial symmetry across cultures and species
There’s a new PLoS ONE paper making the rounds in the press today. The research behind it fits the kinda …
Marc Hauser’s presents four traits that make human cognition unique
The American Association for the Advancement of Science just wrapped up its annual meeting yesterday and the press is releasing …
The adaptive strategies behind music and violence
I’ve got a couple pseudo-science, evolutionary psychological news bits to share with you. The first is coverage of Alan Harvey …
