Fear has a scent. Here’s how this invisible chemical signal has shaped human perceptions, emotions and survival instincts.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Animal models have long shaped how biomedical research is conducted. They have influenced how diseases are studied, how ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

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 ...

For much of the 20th century it was thought that the adult brain was incapable of regeneration. This view has since shifted dramatically and neurogenesis – the birth of new neurons – is now a widely ...

"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Contents Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The ...

The new evolutionary study found two main reasons for the primate anomaly: to attract mates and to threaten rivals.