The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

That scratch on your arm, that scrape on your knee - they're taking their sweet time to heal, and it's likely the fault of your fur, or, really, your lack thereof. Testing the speed of skin healing in ...

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A team of evolutionary scientists, dermatologists and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan, Kenya and France has found that human skin wounds take nearly three times as ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...

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 ...

Stories centered around true love's kiss might be tales as old as time. And, according to a new study, kisses might even have been around before humans walked the earth. Humans kiss each other ...

Humans not only recognize emotions on the faces of monkeys and apes but also unconsciously mimic those expressions.

AMES, Iowa – A new study from an Iowa State University biologist shows that menopause in mid-life is a uniquely human phenomenon among primates. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National ...