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 ...

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 ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own. While genes ...

The evolution of sex, gender, mating strategies, and social relationships are hot topics in the study of nonhuman and human behavior. 1 People from many different disciplines are weighing on these and ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism. According to the authors, certain genes associated with autism are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese macaques at Joshin-etsu National Park in Japan. (Peter Adams / Getty Images file) (Peter Adams) Humans are far from the ...