Stories of lost explorers that tell us about the importance of cultural knowledge to our survival.
Subject Area: Human Evolution
How can we understand variation in the minds of primates? An Orange-based data exploration.
A reading text about the importance of cumulative culture in our everyday experience and in the evolution of our species
In this lesson students explore the causes of our moral intuitions with the help of a sorting activity and reflection questions.
A reading text about the challenges of life in groups and how groups across biology have found ways to solve these challenges.
A video excerpt and worksheet on the importance of pointing gestures in human communication
A reading text on the evolution of the baby schema together with cooperative child care
A reading text and causal mapping tasks on the (co)evolution of brain size, childhood, premature birth, cooperative childcare and social learning and teaching
A series of experiments to explore the tendency to imitate in children and chimpanzees
A handout about the “Triune Brain” model highlighting different functions of different brain regions
