In humans, the social environment is one of the strongest predictors of health and lifespan. Similar patterns in other social mammals suggest that this is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history.

Ritual activity is commonly argued to have played an important role in the development of complex sociopolitical formations worldwide. In the Central Andes, where ritual apparently contributed to both ...

We thank Phillip Ipock for experimental support, Dr. Daria Kim for helpful discussions, and Dr. D. Branch Moody for reading and commenting on the manuscript. We also thank Dr. Thomas Dieffenbach of ...

Two common findings from past research on sleep duration are that people who sleep too little suffer from various health consequences and that people from some cultures often have sleep durations that ...

Mirror symmetry is a prominent feature of “coconformational mechanically helical chirality.” Nevertheless, when a topological molecule cannot be continuously deformed into its mirror image within ...

In 2006, historian Jo Guldi recalled Google Books as nothing less than a revelation. The company had started digitizing millions of books from university and public libraries. With a single click, ...

Gain or loss of whole chromosome arms following centromere breaks is frequent in cancer, but whether or not there is a common initiating event is unknown. Here, we show that the total number of ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a significant global health burden, yet effective pharmacotherapies remain elusive. The angiotensin-like 1 receptor, also known as the ...

Why rates of phenotypic evolution vary across the tree of life is still not well known. A widespread view holds that fast rates result from the colonization of empty adaptive zones, or sets of similar ...

A. D. Leaché, T. Zhu, B. Rannala, Z. Yang, The spectre of too many species. Syst. Biol. 68, 168–181 (2019).

Monsoon circulations are crucial for the livelihood of more than two billion people on Earth. Here, we show that the underlying dynamics that causes the monsoon rainfall is that of a seasonal ...

We thank Antonio Cabrales, Christine Eckert, Javier Gardeazabal, Nagore Iriberri, Pedro Rey-Biel, József Sákovics, Steven Stillman, and seminar and conference participants for helpful comments. We are ...