News; The gift of giving can extend to your own health; the biological basis of human altruism. Published: ; Nov. 23, 2023, 5:30 a.m.

Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened sense of vigilance, is regularly experienced by many humans worldwide.

After decades of studying the brain, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus identified a link between brain damage and ...

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures Antonio Damasio Pantheon: 2018. In attempts to define what makes us uniquely human, emotions and feelings are often ...

Clerics in the 19th century repudiated his account of human origins. Today Darwin is implicitly rejected by the many social scientists and other academics who deny that there is a biological basis ...

Holiday shopping season is in full force and consumers who are on the lookout for deals in stores or online may be surprised to learn that a considerable amount of research is underway to ...

It's time to move beyond models of human behavior centered in genes and natural selection, says anthropologist Barbara J. King, who takes a look at a new paper on the topic.

ALMOST everything which has been written on the biological foundations of human society is based upon a false antithesis with a historical background, which should be evident to everyone who is ...