It’s important to remember that we humans are simply animals. A very advanced species, but members of the animal kingdom nonetheless. We all need water, food, and shelter to survive, but we also share ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Sexuality and gender are often at the forefront of cultural and political debate today. In his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern ...

The human genome is a complex record of migration, evolution, and ancestry written over thousands of millennia. Now, new genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff’s lab at the University of ...

Mating with different partners could become a way to lower that pressure. Just like the red deer, you could be polygynous, meaning you could mate with multiple partners to increase the chances of ...

Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted with other human-like creatures. If the simplest explanation is often ...