Chimpanzees and bonobos may be very close to us humans on the tree of life, but one of our differences is the way we store ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Most of us think of “mind reading” as something reserved for people with strong intuition, or something we only joke about ...

This valuable study shows that regions of the human auditory cortex that respond strongly to voices are also sensitive to vocalizations from closely related primate species. The study is ...

In her own research in Uganda, Reddy studied four adolescent male chimpanzees who adopted their younger siblings after their ...

Chimpanzees change their choices when stronger clues appear and stay the course when only weaker hints came in.

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Kissing could be 21 million years old. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Matilda Brindle an evolutionary biologist from Oxford University about the origins of smooching.

In the words of Dua Lipa, one kiss is all it took about 21 million years ago.That's roughly when scientists estimate that ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be.

Kissing may feel like a very human habit, but new research suggests it has much deeper roots. A team of scientists says the behavior likely began more than 20 million years ago, long before modern ...