Why Are Humans The Only Animals That Cook Their Food? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our species’ history.

Robert Trivers, Eccentric Scientist Who Probed Human Nature, Dies at 83

A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly ...

Are humans naturally violent? New research challenges long-held assumptions

New research from the University of Lincoln, UK, is challenging a common assumption about the evolutionary origins of human ...
The Harvard Crimson

Human Evolutionary Biology Concentration Will Be Renamed This Summer

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

A captive chimp's instrumental performances hint at the evolution of vocal externalization

In February 2023, a resident at Kyoto University's Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior—EHUB—treated ...
The Harvard Crimson

Human and Evolutionary Biology Dept. Holds Focus Groups on Renaming Concentration

Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology concentration may soon be known by a different name. In an email to concentrators, Ashley Johnson, the HEB undergraduate program coordinator, wrote that the ...
Science Daily

Scientists reveal kissing began millions of years before humans

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points to great apes and even Neanderthals sharing forms of kissing millions of ...
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Human evolution may be undergoing a major shift right before our eyes

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...