The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

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

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FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

Sperm whales in the wild. Image via Wikipedia. A groundbreaking study has revealed that sperm whale “codas” (short sequences ...

Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, ...

Until machines understand social context, they will struggle to operate naturally in the spaces humans actually live.​ ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

It has been very interesting how parrots can mimic human speech. Recently, however, scientists seem to have found something ...

Life on Earth has never been static. Over billions of years, the planet has experienced ice ages and warm periods, comet ...