We present a teaching tool, used widely in other parts of science and science education, yet perhaps underutilized in human evolution education—the causal map—as
Content Anchor: Cross-species
Evolutionary anthropologists commonly describe humans as a highly cooperative species, based on our evolved socio-cognitive capacities. However, students and the general public may not
A set of behavioral experiments across cultures that explore the human sense of fairness.
Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
This NetLogo model lets students explore how competition for resources can affect the evolution of a population and can result in resource overuse. This
