Emotions play a central role in shaping human behavior, cognition, and social interaction. They bridge biology, behavior, and sociality—functioning as ...

Over the past decade, paleontology has entered a new era of rapid discovery and scientific transformation. Breakthrough ...

Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation represents an evolutionary argument as to why cellphones may be driving the ...

Kissing is more than just “mouth-to-mouth” touching, and the study doesn’t really shed much light on why humans kiss the way they do, said Adriano Reis e Lameira, an evolutionary psychologist and ...

The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of the ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the 'Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society' suggested that the world’s first ...

"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," was published by Evolution and Human Behavior on Nov. 19 ...

Most pet behaviors are cute, but many of them may come from instincts developed by thousands of years of evolution. To learn more, put together a list of ways household pets have evolved as they’ve ...

The evolution of the so-called dread risk response has been explained by new research. People often respond to low-probability, high-consequence events like terror attacks or nuclear accidents with a ...

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...