animals
27/02/2024 - 14:01
By eight months, infants have learned how to use their own faces, bodies and voices to make grown-ups laugh. Soon after, parents may... →
08/06/2023 - 13:08
Followers of Descartes have argued that consciousness is a uniquely human attribute, perhaps facilitated by language, that allows us to... →
05/11/2022 - 13:14
Such research is often a first step towards identifying mutations that are relevant to human health, or in unraveling the mechanisms behind... →
17/08/2021 - 13:20
In his lab at Linköping University in Sweden, Per Jensen, a professor of ethology, is trying to recreate this domestication process in... →
06/08/2019 - 12:28
Nothing pulls at the imagination like extremes – overwrought banquets and orgies, epic battles, devastating natural disasters, glorious... →
11/05/2019 - 13:21
There’s a concept from philosophy that describes this evolution — it’s called humanity’s expanding moral circle. The circle is the... →
26/11/2016 - 13:19
If you are meeting some friends for lunch, your prospective memory reminds you to turn up on the right day, but you can also picture... →
25/11/2016 - 18:40
The human brain has nearly 100,000 times as many neurons as the bee brain, yet the rudiments of many of our most valued behaviours can be... →
14/08/2016 - 13:19
Darwin was a diligent thinker. He agonised over any example he came across of organisms behaving in a way that seemed to run counter to his... →
21/11/2015 - 14:10
Romanes waited until his dog was distracted by another hound, then darted away in a mad zigzag. When the dog returned, it realised Romanes... →
20/02/2015 - 14:35
“There's lots of evidence that dogs are more skilled than primates at thinking about a person's communicative intentions,” says Laurie R.... →
28/12/2014 - 14:11
All four tortoises learned how to use the touchscreens during the training phase before the experiment started. But only two of them – Esme... →