I have seen congested traffic and aggressive drivers in many cities around the world. More than once I have noticed that if two cars arrive simultaneously at an intersection, one driver will honk his ...

This volume is based on the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, “In the Light of Evolution VI: Brain and Behavior,” held January 20-21, 2012, at the Arnold and Mabel ...

A colleague of mine who also studies evolution and behavior once told me that when a passenger next to him on a plane asks, "So, what do you do?" his reply is "Oh, me? I'm an organic chemist." End of ...

It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting on a distant slope. It was not a rock. As he drew closer, he realized he ...

Introduction : Why teeth? -- I. Development. Microscopes, cells, and biological rhythms -- The big picture : birth, death, and everything in between -- Things that can go wrong : stress, pathology, ...

[v. 2.] Introduction : Carnivores and conservation biology / George B. Schaller -- pt. 1. Behavior. Ethics and the study of carnivores : doing science while respecting animals / Marc Bekoff and Dale ...

A study on dogs found that chromatin's spatial structure has a significant role in the evolution of social behavior. Chromatin, the compact form of DNA, not only packages genetic material but also ...

S tanding before the Royal Society of Medicine in London on June 22, 1972, the ecologist-turned-psychologist John Bumpass Calhoun, director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the ...

A new study, published today by the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, provides an interesting overview of the relative frequency in which same-sex behaviors have been observed in an ...

The field of geotechnical engineering has long recognized the critical role of water-rock interactions in influencing the ...