At the heart of conversation is turn-taking: the ability to coordinate interaction in time. This means alternating speaking ...

New research led by University of Oxford researchers has found that old age likely impacts the habitual tool-use behaviors of ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

We can explain our brains, bones, and even balls... but this very visible part of us still has evolutionists stumped.

Chimpanzees are losing their homes, but it’s not too late. World chimpanzee day shows us why they matter and how we can help.

Human opinion formation has evolved to favor survival and social cohesion. Understanding this enables us to develop more ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

The more we try to understand chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, the more we find ourselves humbled by the richness ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

This study reveals that "baby talk” has developed particularly in humans, even though other species – monkeys, bats, cats and ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...