Some behaviours that are crucial to survival appear to be hard-wired, meaning that they occur without previous experience. For example, many prey organisms naturally know how to escape to safety from ...

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Humans learn language from their elders. And the same is true of honey bees. Biologists who study bees have known that forager bees can find food in the wild and tell others in the hive where it is.

Your children learn from watching you. The most effective way to parent is to become who you want your child to become. We may think parenting is an innate or natural ability because nature dictates ...

Scarlett Howard receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and has previously received funding from Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, RMIT University, ...