That cute thing your newborn is doing that you’ve been telling everyone about… Chances are they aren’t copying it from you.
6 May 2016Uncertainty in the world will lead people – and even animals - to seek more immediate forms of gratification and fail to plan long-term.
28 January 2016Why are humans the peculiar creatures that we are? How did we become so different from other animals? How, in fact, are we different?
5 November 2013Students and staff passionate about exchanging extraordinary ideas have secured top speakers for The University of Queensland’s first ever TEDx event on March 23.
7 March 2013University of Queensland developmental psychologists have taken a step into our evolutionary past by studying gibbons.
4 March 2009Some of the world’s leading primate experts will meet at UQ from March 9-11 for the 25th annual conference of the Australasian Primate Society.
1 March 2007A UQ researcher will have daily access to a large group of apes thanks to a $30,000 fellowship with a world-renowned scientific institute.
1 November 2006Chimpanzees and two-year-old children are as clever as each other but dogs are not as smart as previously thought, according to a University of Queensland study.
22 August 2006How and when babies and young children understand what it means to be human is the subject of Dr Virginia Slaughter`s research within UQ`s School of Psychology.
24 September 2004