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From war and politics to interpersonal strife, the continuous inability of humans to “just get along” raises a perplexing question: Why are we so often hostile, fearful of difference, and irrational ...

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Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural world.

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive.

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...