China is reported to have opened 382 new museums in 2022 alone. It shows no signs of slowing down.
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From Spartan feasts to Sunday brunches, the way we eat has transformed since our hunter-gatherer ancestors first shared meals around the hearth.
Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the uniquely open-ended ways we invent new ideas and share and build on them.
Biologists investigated whether birds that search for multiple mates would evolve ever more elaborate songs to attract them. What they found might have surprised Darwin.
New research suggests that hints left in Creole languages can identify where the original speakers came from – even hundreds of years after they migrated and mixed together.
Technology requires humanity to innovate at a faster pace, but it also hampers true creative thinking. The good news? Nurturing creativity in children is easier than most people think.
New research investigates how people sequentially add new color terms to languages over time – and the results hold surprises about assumptions linguists have made for 40 years.
Embracing more rigorous scientific methods would mean getting science right more often than we currently do. But the way we value and reward scientists makes this a challenge.
Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised a new model to explain why, after eons of nothing much new, we sometimes see an explosion of innovation in the archaeological record.
According to British historian Arnold Toynbee, “History is just one damned thing after another.” Or is it? That is the question Peter Turchin of the University of Connecticut in Storrs tries to answer…
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced
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Lecturer in Cultural Evolution, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Associate in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
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Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Senior Lecturer in Culinary Arts & Gastronomy, Auckland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Culinary Arts & Gastronomy, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Psychology and Creative Studies, University of British Columbia
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Teaching Associate, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University