Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I ...

Why nature allows animals to have litters but not humans is a question that comes naturally when we compare ourselves to the ...

Humans ask what things mean. Animals move on. That difference explains both our brilliance and much of our psychological ...