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Is It Time To Bring Risk Back Into Our Kids' Playgrounds?

March 15, 2018 • Are playgrounds in the U.S. too sterile and risk-averse to help our kids thrive? Anthropologist Barbara J. King considers play and child development in evolutionary perspective.

Puerto Rico's Monkey Island Lures Scientists For Generations

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Puerto Rico's Monkey Island Lures Scientists For Generations

June 27, 2015 • The isle of Cayo Santiago has been home to at least nine generations of rhesus monkeys since the colony's founding in 1938. Primatologists here seek clues to primate kinship, cognition and ecology.

Puerto Rico's Monkey Island Lures Scientists For Generations

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We May Have Snakes To Thank For Our Acute Vision

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

We May Have Snakes To Thank For Our Acute Vision

March 19, 2015 • Anthropologist Barbara J. King takes a look at a new paper supporting the snake-detection theory, a set of hypotheses suggesting we owe certain features of our evolution to the risks posed by snakes.

Why Do You Care About Fairness? Ask A Chimp

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Why Do You Care About Fairness? Ask A Chimp

September 18, 2014 • Squirrel monkeys, chimps and humans: Two among these are willing to give up an unfair advantage, but why? It's about greasing the social wheels, scientists say.

Rare Observations Appear To Show Marmoset Grief In The Wild

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Rare Observations Appear To Show Marmoset Grief In The Wild

April 27, 2014 • A monkey falls from a tree in Brazil; her male partner offers comfort as she dies. Anthropologist Barbara King says a new paper detailing the incident opens our eyes to the reality of animal emotions.

Enough With Baby Talk; Infants Learn From Lemur Screeches, Too

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Enough With Baby Talk; Infants Learn From Lemur Screeches, Too

September 2, 2013 • Even infants too young to discern the meaning of words seem better able to learn while listening to the sound of human speech than while listening to nonsense — speech run backward. Little surprise there, perhaps, but a study shows that recordings of lemur calls spark learning, too.

Enough With Baby Talk; Infants Learn From Lemur Screeches, Too

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College-Bound Kids And The Emotions of Primate Parents

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For Most Of Human History, Being An Omnivore Was No Dilemma

April 20, 2012 • Humans and other primates have been omnivores for some time, which may have given us an evolutionary edge over strictly meat or plant eaters, a new study shows. It may have also prompted us to wean our babies faster, another study says.