Editorial

Martí Domínguez

Public engagement as rhetoric, persuasion as practice

Hans Peter Peters

Introduction: Drylands. Opportunities, challenges, and threats

Jaime Martinez-Valderrama, Emilio Guirado, Fernando T. Maestre

Life adapted to precariousness: The ecology of drylands

Jaime Martinez-Valderrama, Emilio Guirado, Fernando T. Maestre

Science and policy to combat desertification: The institutional response to a global challenge

Víctor M. Castillo Sánchez

Intensification of livestock farming in times of climate change: The challenges of domestic grazing in the drylands of the Argentine Patagonia

Laura Yahdjian, Lucas J. Carboni, Sergio Velasco Ayuso, Gaston R. Oñatibia

Latin American drylands: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable development

Anahi Ocampo, América Lutz-Ley, Adriana Zuñiga, Claudia Cerda, Silvana Goirán

Introduction: Assembled life. A natural history of societies

Juli Peretó, Jaume Bertranpetit

Social evolution: A biological history of cooperation

Pau Carazo

Mobility and sedentariness: The convergence of two divergent archaeological concepts

Anna Bach Gómez

The origins of normativity: Assessor teaching and the emergence of norms

Laureano Castro, Miguel A. Toro

An evolutionary success story: The ascent of the urban ape

Greg Woolf

Sitopia: How food shapes civilisation

Carolyn Steel

Rashevsky’s dream: A physico-mathematical foundation of history and culture

Salva Duran-Nebreda, Sergi Valverde

Introduction: One world, one health

Teresa L. Thompson

Re-imagining One Health: A perspective from social science

Maria Knight Lapinski, Matthew Seeger, Deanna Sellnow, Timothy Sellnow, Teresa L. Thompson

Boosting vaccination: Accelerating vaccine uptake through communication science

Victoria Ledford, Xiaoli Nan

More biodiversity to improve our health: The benefits to human well-being of favouring functional and diverse ecosystems

Fernando Valladares

Zoonotic diseases: Can the transmission of pathogens between animals and humans be controlled?

Júlia Vergara Alert

The environmental watchdogs: Wildlife as sentinels of antimicrobial resistance pollution in the environment in Catalonia

Laila Darwich, Rafael A. Molina-López

Introduction: Beauty and nature

Raquel Ortells Bañeres, Eduardo M. García Roger

Is beauty a criterion of truth? Genetic quality or aesthetic criteria, drivers of sexual selection in animals

Juan Ignacio Pérez

Sex and design in our evolutionary cousins: The perception of beauty in nature

Tamra C. Mendelson, Michael J. Ryan

Beauty and mate choice: What evolutionary biology can teach us

Enrique Font, Enrique V. Font‐Ferrer

Back to nature: Landscape in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts movement

Mónica Vergés Alonso

Dialogues between art and nature: Aesthetic reflection as a context

Romà de la Calle