In this contribution, we address a major puzzle in the evolution of human material culture: If maturing individuals just learn their parental generation's material culture, then what is the origin of...

Studies of cultural transmission—whether approached by archaeological or ethnographic means—have made great strides in identifying formal teaching and learning arrangements, which in turn can be close...

– by Murillo Pagnotta Symbolic artefacts as tools of the mind In the study of human evolution, evidence of symbolic behaviour is often taken to indicate when the mind of our deep past relatives became...

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Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

Biological Theory - Over the past twenty years, empirical and theoretical advances have significantly reshaped the research agenda on “behavioral modernity” and its conceptualization....

Vietnam's weather agency has recorded its highest level of rainfall for a 24-hour period in the historic city of Hue.

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Scientific Reports - Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed.