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February 8, 2010
February 8, 2010
There is no doubt that spiritual experiences and religion, which are ubiquitous across cultures and time and associated exclusively with humans, are ultimately based in the brain. However, there are still many unanswered questions. 
February 5, 2010
Music is a mystery. It is unique to the human race; it has been, and remains, part of every known civilisation on Earth; and it engages people's attention more comprehensively than almost anything else.
February 3, 2010
Scientists have shown that we move faster when we react to something in our environment than we do when we initiate the action ourselves. Inspired by cowboy movies, in reality it's more useful for avoiding oncoming traffic.
February 3, 2010
Male homosexuality doesn't make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view. Since homosexual men are much less likely to produce offspring, shouldn't the genes for this trait have been extinguished long ago?
February 1, 2010
Using slow-motion footage, scientists have discovered that experienced barefoot runners land very differently from runners who wear shoes.
January 29, 2010
A study argues that human languages may adapt more like biological organisms than previously thought and that the more common and popular the language, the simpler its construction to facilitate its survival.
January 27, 2010
Children as young as five months old will follow the gaze of an adult towards an object and engage in joint attention.
January 27, 2010
Women feel more betrayed if their partner falls in love with someone else than if he is simply unfaithful, claims a new study. Men feel more let down by a partner's sexual indiscretions.
January 26, 2010
Certain emotions, such as happiness, anger, fear, sadness, disgust and surprise, are universal, and provide further evidence that such emotions form a set of basic, evolved functions that are shared by all cultures.
January 25, 2010
Extra-terrestrials likely to possess human foibles such as greed, violence and a tendency to exploit others' resources, conference to be told.
January 21, 2010
With 6.8 billion people alive today, it's hard to fathom that humans were ever imperiled. But 1.2 million years ago, only 18,500 early humans were breeding on the planet—evidence that there was a real risk of extinction for our early ancestors.
January 21, 2010
People with power that they think is justified break rules not only because they can get away with it, but also because they feel at some intuitive level that they are entitled to take what they want.
January 20, 2010
Most men in Europe can trace a line of descent to early farmers who migrated from the Near East, a study says.
January 20, 2010
Thinking of a dog activates an area of the brain that deals with animate objects, whereas a hammer excites one that processes inanimate things. But the same thing would have happened even if you had never seen a dog or a hammer before.
January 20, 2010
Domestic dogs have followed their own evolutionary path, twisting Darwin's directive 'survival of the fittest' to their own needs—and have proved him right in the process.
January 19, 2010
Scientists may have solved the mystery of how human hands became nimble enough to make and manipulate stone tools.
January 19, 2010
Researchers have proved that they are able to calculate in their heads whether the number of dots on a screen is increasing or decreasing.
January 14, 2010
Far from being in a state of decay, the Y chromosome is the fastest-changing part of the human genome and is constantly renewing itself.
January 13, 2010
Women around the world spend billions of dollars each year on exotic smelling perfumes and lotions in the hopes of attracting a mate. However, according to a new study, going "au natural" may be the best way to capture a potential mate's attention.
January 12, 2010
Scientists have found about 100,000 elements of human DNA that probably came from viruses.
January 12, 2010
Do apes and monkeys have a secret language that has not yet been decrypted? And if so, will it resolve the mystery of how the human faculty for language evolved?
January 11, 2010
The subtle but ongoing pressures of human evolution could explain the seeming rise of disorders such as autism, autoimmune diseases, and reproductive cancers.
January 11, 2010
Research has documented that most men become much more jealous about sexual infidelity than they do about emotional infidelity. Women are the opposite, and this is true all over the world. Just why is not fully understood.
January 8, 2010
Genetically modified prairie voles may illuminate the human condition.
January 7, 2010
Genomes of humans and other mammals contain DNA derived from the insertion of bornaviruses, RNA viruses whose replication and transcription takes place in the nucleus.
January 6, 2010
Scientists found that some of our closest animal relatives—monkeys—pay more attention to the older members of a group than they do to youngsters.
January 5, 2010
New research finds that men's reports of feeling sexually aroused tend to match their physiological responses, while women's mind and body responses are less aligned.
January 4, 2010
Conspicuous consumption (for men) and conspicuous charity (for women) can function strategically as a form of mating display.
January 4, 2010
The smell of a man's sweat differs according to what mood he is in and women can pick up on changes that indicate attraction.
January 31, 2003
The debut of The Bio-Rational Forum was held on March 1-2, 2003, at the Grand Pacific Palisades Resort Hotel in Carlsbad, California. The Forum provided a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of the brain, and the five primal instincts that influence human behavior.
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