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

Examples for positive, neutral and negative expressions. Copyright held by the authors. Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and ...

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

With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Galdikas changed the face of science and opened the world’s eyes to how similar humans are ...

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 ...

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 ...

A car backfires, and your shoulders jump. A shadow moves, and your eyes fly open before your brain catches up. That dramatic flash of white sclera around widened eyes feels automatic because it is.