Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered ...

A pioneering project led by researchers from the University of Stirling and the Max Planck Institute has opened the door for ...

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points to great apes and even Neanderthals sharing forms of kissing millions of ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

Most humans favour their right hand, a trait deeply rooted in our evolutionary past. This dominance, linked to language ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

Blushing is one behavior you may have wanted to eliminate completely, but there is a strong, adaptive reason why evolution chose to retain it.

In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...