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Impressing the birds really takes brains - Joah Madden has found evidence that brains increased in size during evolution so that men could impress choosy women with their artistic prowess.
 
In Favor of Animal Consciousness - An excerpt from Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin, the creator of the field of cognitive ethology.
 
Increased dopamine release in the human amygdala during performance of cognitive tasks - These data provide evidence for sustained activation of the human mesolimbic dopaminergic system during performance of cognitive tasks.
 
Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology - Online paper by David Buller.
 
Intelligence: Evolutionary psychology meets g - An analysis by Neil Mackintosh.
 
Intentionality detection and "mindreading": Why does game form matter? PNAS -- McCabe et al. 97 (8): 4404 - By around the age of 4 years, children "can work out what people might know, think or believe" based on what they say or do. This is called "mindreading," which builds upon the human ability to infer the intentions of others.
 
Into the mind of a killer - Brain imaging studies are starting to venture into the legal minefield of research into criminal psychopathy. Alison Abbott reports from one of the most controversial frontiers of neuroscience.
 
Is Out of Africa Going Out the Door? - Reanalysis of gene studies and new fossil evidence cast doubts of a popular theory of human origins.
 
Is There a Normal Phase of Synaesthesia in Development? - Maurer's developmental theory of synaesthesia states that all human neonates have synaesthesia, but that by about 4 months of age the senses have become modularized to the extent that we no longer have synaesthesia.
 
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? - Why are some humans considered more beautiful than others? Theory suggests that sexually reproducing organisms should choose mates displaying characters indicative of high genotypic or phenotypic quality.
 
It's only natural - Red Pepper archive - The bioglogical differences between men and women are no threat to feminism, says Helena Cronin.
 
Japan's ape sequencing effort set to unravel the brain's secrets - The genetics and neurology of apes could pave the way to a better understanding of the relationship between the human genome and the brain.
 
Longevity - Ageing and our own mortality could be the price we pay for human fertility, says Tom Kirkwood.
 
Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint - A paper was presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, London, on 20 March 1998.
 
Mammoth Kill - Did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction? Or give them lethal disease?
 
Man, the utterly exceptional beast - Scientists increasingly see mankind as just another animal, but they are leaving out the thing that makes us special, writes Kenan Malik.
 
Maternal age and traits in offspring - The timing of a mouse's first litter influences the development of her pups.
 
Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination - Online paper by Daniel Dennett.
 
Men Show Feelings In Lower Left Quadrant Of Face - When it comes to emotions men and women are equally expressive, but men display most of their joy, disgust or other sentiments in the lower left quadrant of their face. Women, on the other hand, show their emotions across their entire countenance.
 
Men fish for compliments - The menfolk of the Meriam, a people who live on islands off the northeast tip of Australia, spend their time spear-fishing and turtle-hunting, but are they really fishing for compliments?
 
 
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