Brian Hare
Animal minds inspire Human #evolution fascinates ❤️ #bonobos #dogs, #democracy, falsifiable ideas - founded dognition.com, co-wrote NYT bestseller & MOOC
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Why it actually might be 'survival of the friendliest'
"Survival of the fittest" often brings to mind a notion that physical strength and power are key to a species' survival, but that's a misconception. Some research even suggests that friendliness is a better evolutionary strategy.
Brian Hare
had fun w @bonobohandshake on this one - Why it actually might be 'survival of the friendliest' video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals-… via @NatGeo @sandeeeeeeepp
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Allowing Dogs to Sniff Helps Them Think Positively
New research shows that allowing dogs to exercise their noses is good for them.
Network‐level consequences of outgroup threats in banded mongooses: Grooming and aggression between the sexes
This study is novel as it addresses changes in social network characteristics of individuals in response to intergroup conflict. It involves multiple social networks, and individual changes in behavi...
Simulation: A strategy for mindreading similar but not dissimilar others?
One proposed solution to the challenge of mentalizing is to use one's own mind as a model in a process known as simulation. Studies have demonstrated …
The Femsplainers Podcast: Why Mean, Obnoxious People Lose on Apple Podcasts
Show The Femsplainers Podcast, Ep Why Mean, Obnoxious People Lose - Sep 28, 2020
The reliability of individual vocal signature varies across the bonobo's graded repertoire
Vocalizations often contain both ‘dynamic’ information, related to short-term fluctuations in the individual's emotional states, and ‘static’ informat…
Announcing the National Geographic Society’s 2020 Class of Emerging Explorers
The Society’s newest cohort of changemakers will transform their fields and the understanding of our world
High-throughput whole-brain mapping of rhesus monkey at micron resolution
Whole-brain mesoscale mapping of primates has been hindered by large brain size and the relatively low throughput of available microscopy methods. Here, we present an integrative approach that combines primate-optimized tissue sectioning and...
Voters Should Be Able to Return Absentee Ballots to Polling Places
Absentee ballot requests have surged, but options for returning ballots remain limited.
Patterns of urinary cortisol levels during ontogeny appear population specific rather than species specific in wild chimpanzees and bonobos
Compared with most mammals, postnatal development in great apes is protracted, presenting both an extended period of phenotypic plasticity to environm…
Trabecular bone in domestic dogs and wolves: Implications for understanding human self‐domestication
The process of domestication is complex and results in significant morphological, cognitive, and physiological changes. In canids, some of the traits indicative of domestication of domestic dogs comp...
Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)
This is part 1 of a series where I'll look at the future costs of
Earth Ideas • A podcast on Anchor
These are long-form, unscripted interviews with Academics, Scientists & Journalists about their areas of research.
Forming a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world,...
Survival of the Friendliest, free book webinar with authors Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Date and Time: October 1st, 2020. 12-1pm ET
Join authors Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods as they discuss their groundbreaking new book, "Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity" with evolutionary...