New cross-cultural study reveals that the bond between humans and dogs remains remarkably consistent across societies

A new study assesses how cognitive skills of great apes vary between individuals.

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Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition

Part time fixed term Location: YorkSalary: £34,610 to £39,906 per annum (£17,305 to £19,953 pro rata)Introduction to YSJ universityYork St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there...

Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, are often regarded as a model species for the evolution of human cooperation. However, whether chimpanzees' decision-mak…

Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

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Find out more about this PhD opportunity funded by BBSRC, hosted through the NTU fully funded studentship scheme.

Most studies find substantial inter-individual differences in problem-solving performance within a species, which can drastically influence an individual´s fitness. It has been suggested that innovati...

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...