Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

This breakthrough represents a big step toward creating animal hybrids capable of growing human-compatible organs, easing the ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

Children universally believe animals experience emotions and feelings but are reluctant to say they have human-like thoughts, ...

It’s a question that has puzzled thinkers for centuries: Are we humans alone in our pursuit of fairness and the frustration we feel when others get what we want? In recent years, evolutionary ...

From chimps that wage war over territory to parrots that outperform Harvard students on memory tests, many other members of the animal kingdom demonstrate surprisingly human-like behavior. When you ...