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 ...

Why do we kiss? The answer involves ancient apes, immune systems and a neurochemical cocktail in the human brain that few can ...

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 ...

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

Why do humans fear the dark? How can the science of evolutionary biology explain this primitive instinct? Fear of the dark, an instinctual fear relate.

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting-edge evolutionary genetics research, helping scientists understand how ...

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...

Share on Pinterest Human brain cell evolution may be linked to autism, neurodiversity, according to a new study. Image credit: Lauren Lee/Stocksy A new study concludes that the speed at which the ...