Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways. It was once thought that humans were the only animals with culture: the learned rather ...

Human behaviour refers to the way humans act and interact. It is based on and influenced by several factors, such as genetic make-up, culture and individual values and attitudes. Three national ...

Before we ever wrote on paper or even stone tablets, humanity was unwittingly writing its history in the DNA of each successive generation. Now, after tens of thousands of years, scientists reading ...

Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout history, many definitions have been proposed to describe what we mean when we talk about culture, leading to considerable confusion. But while ...

Modern behavior can be recognized by creative and innovative culture, language, art, religious beliefs, and complex ...

Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human cultural know-how grew through a long, measured shift from casual ...

Anthropologists have long believed the impulse to dance or sing a lullaby is universal. But a study focused on the Northern Aché, an Indigenous tribe of 800 in the forests of eastern Paraguay, is ...

Artificial intelligence can develop solutions that humans would be unlikely to discover on their own. But what happens when machines do more than solve individual problems and actually discover ...

People often speak of culture in the plural (“cultures”) because they believe that there are many different cultures in the world. At one level, this is of course true; the American culture is ...

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This article was produced by Human Bridges. What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process? Culture is ...