Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

While shifts in behavior could help wildlife and people coexist, they might also affect the animals’ survival.

More than 3,500 scientists had signed an open letter to NIH Director Francis Collins opposing the rules change.

Researchers find consistent behaviors and brain activity in an international study.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2017 issue of The Scientist.

The human brain’s insular cortex is adept at registering distaste for everything from rotten fruit to unfamiliar cultures.

In the book’s introduction, author and neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky explains his fascination with the biology of violence and other dark parts of human behavior.

Human visitors to camera traps display, well, human behavior.

Researchers are using multiple methods to study the origins of humans’ capacity to process and produce music, and there’s no shortage of debate about the results.