Much of the plastic debris fractures into micro- or nanoparticles called microplastics that can be ingested by marine organisms.
Contact with nature generates measurable benefits for people’s psychological and physiological health.
Although a One Health perspective has, in one way or another, been around at least since the time of Hippocrates, the term itself was coined by William Karesh in a
«We must stop thinking that women were there just to sweep the cave»
Interview with Marylène Patou-Mathis
In her latest book, L'homme préhistorique est aussi une femme, the prehistorian Marylène Patou-Mathis delved right into the clichés and stereotypes about prehistoric women.
Having taught at Emory University (Atlanta, US) for two decades, Lori Marino is the founder and Executive Director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and founder and President of the
What made urban experiments possible at the end of the Holocene? What selective pressures made cities more successful than other alternatives?
Associating feelings of pleasure with dopamine us a common mistake. The process involves many other elements. Humans permanently seek pleasure and the continuous generation of expectations, surprise, and desire.
The most widely accepted hypothesis holds that social norms were shaped by processes of cultural selection between human groups with different rules on how to organise social life.
Much of the archaeological evidence left by humans shows the strategies they adopted in terms of mobility, the structure of exchange networks, and the evidence of their inhabiting an environment that they quickly learned to manage and appropriate.
To talk about life is to talk about cooperation. In a world dominated by Darwinian competition, how has cooperation come to play such an important role?
This text explores two of the most important economic activities in Latin American drylands: agriculture and mining; as well as the impact of climate change on the availability of water resources and the consequent power struggles.
Livestock grazing modifies and even degrades arid ecosystems, which threatens the sustainability of livestock farming itself.
The trade in wild species generates great economic wealth on a global scale. The regulation of this trade must take into account many complexities.
If we hang a magnet by a thread, it always aligns itself in the same direction, even if there is no other magnet nearby. This is a compass and responds to the Earth's magnetism.
Genetics and language are closely connected. Some genes in humans have been essential for the development of complex language.
When we are having a conversation, walking together, or simply sitting next to someone else, our postures and movements are coordinated.
