With their round eyes, plush fur and tiny hands, pygmy slow lorises look like they were designed to be cradled. Yet this baby ...

A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in ...

Experts at Imperial College London suggest homosexuality might help forge strong bonds that allow groups to stay together to survive harsh conditions.

Why is same-sex behaviour so common in animals? A new study suggests it's a crucial survival strategy for building social ...

Like many life sciences outfits undergoing a restructuring, Charles River Laboratories is balancing layoffs and a business ...

For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy ...

Scientists once thought that planning required a primate brain. Experiments with birds are now proving that assumption wrong.

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

Hippocampi- targeted AAV-delivered BDNF gene therapy improves cognitive impairments in Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s ...

Humans and chimpanzees share the capacity for genocide, which is rooted in the evolution of higher thought and the separation ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...