Touch heals both ways. As hands soothe tense muscles, the therapist’s brain lights up—mirror neurons fire, empathy deepens, and calm floods in. Massage is mutual medicine.

Chimps in Guinea-Bissau were recorded sharing fermented breadfruits in the wild, offering a clue about the origins of social ...

These patterns mirror those seen in primate grooming, reinforcing the idea that massage taps into an ancestral caregiving circuit. ARCH Theory: Behavior as Archetype × Drive × Culture ARCH ...

Discover the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens, shedding light on early mammalian evolution, its arboreal lifestyle, ...

For decades, scientists have leaned on the idea that animal communication is more dependent on genetics than locale. A dog is not going to learn to meow just because it’s raised around cats. But it’s ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

Primates, and especially humans ... He tries to understand differences between brains as the result of deviations from ancestral brains that arose to deal with challenges in the environment. To study ...

African apes, our next closest kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million years ago, and orangutans some 18.2 to 19.6 million years ago. The new ape genome resource is ...

The genomes of the two species don’t quite align, particularly in certain regions African apes, our next closest kin on the primate ancestral tree, diverged about 10.6 to 10.9 million years ago ...

The fundamental issue Serbian societies (in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska) face with ...

Same-sex sexual behavior has been documented in over 1,500 animal species. It occurs across virtually all major groups — from ...