Biology, Life Sciences

Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West,...

Human activities impact the environment and modify the cycles of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen from local to global scales. In ord...

Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? Thes...

Just like humans, animals and plants suffer from infectious diseases, which can critically threaten biodiversity. This book describes key studies t...

What is the instantaneous position of a moving object from the point of view of the observer? How does a tennis player know when and where to place...

Co-authored by a leading ophthalmology researcher and a professor with fifteen years of experience teaching writing in the biomedical sciences, The...

The Taï Chimpanzee Project (Taï National Park, Cote D'Ivoire) has yielded unprecedented insights into the nature of cooperation, cognition, and cul...

Mangroves are distinctive tropical plant communities that occupy the intertidal zone between sea and land. They are of major ecological importance,...

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...

The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields su...

The Neuroethics of Memory is a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity and content, as well...

What every neuroscientist should know about the mathematical modeling of excitable cells. Combining empirical physiology and nonlinear dynamics, th...

The chromosome complement (karyotype) often differs between related mammalian species (including humans vs chimpanzees), such that evolutionary bio...

The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields su...

Furry and wide-eyed, lorises and pottos are small, nocturnal primates inhabiting African, Asian and Southeast Asian tropical and subtropical forest...

Intractability is a growing concern across the cognitive sciences: while many models of cognition can describe and predict human behavior in the la...

Law regulates human behaviour, a phenomenon about which neuroscience has much to say. Neuroscience can tell us whether a defendant suffers from a b...

With heart-shaped face, buff back and wings, and pure white underparts, the barn owl is a distinctive and much-loved bird which has fascinated peop...