In early 2020, while humans were sanitizing their groceries and obsessively washing their hands to avoid Covid-19, some ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many households wiped down groceries with disinfectant before putting them away.

We are the worst primates when it comes to wound healing, according to a new study. Our wounds heal nearly three times slower than those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and other ...

Learn how human healing compares to healing in other primates and mammals, whose fur may help their skin stitch itself together. That scratch on your arm, that scrape on your knee — they’re taking ...

Textbooks say human birth is uniquely hard because of our big heads. A new primate comparison found squirrel monkeys, ...

How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

(Anup Shah/Stone RF/Getty Images) Human languages are complex and versatile. They reflect our intelligence, our cultures, our need to understand and be understood. Our languages tend to follow ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Ursula Hess from ...

On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...

Examples for positive, neutral and negative expressions. Copyright held by the authors. Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and ...