"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," was published by Evolution and Human Behavior on Nov. 19 ...
Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points ...
Max Telford translated the technical effort behind studying evolution into a relatable story for every reader in The Tree of ...
A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...
Nobody saw it coming. Not the regulators writing ESG checklists. Not the brands chasing carbon offsets. Not the investors who dismissed traceability as a sustainability sideshow. Somewhere behind all ...
A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many biological abilities and cultural processes.
A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture ...
For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...
Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...
“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...
The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA over millions of years and never left. Most are silent but some have taken on ...