For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy ...

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

Gordon Burghardt kept a lion cub named Meg in his home at the behest of the Knoxville Zoo. To help Meg get out some energy, Burghardt and his wife would often play with Meg in their wooded, unfenced ...

Abstract: This study establishes a multi-agent modeling framework to analyze the evolutionary dynamics of zero-determinant strategies on regular networks under hybrid social dilemmas integrating ...

In recent years, environmental behavior has emerged as a crucial research direction for achieving sustainable development. Promoting environmental awareness and related practices can effectively ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Email, once the undisputed king of digital communication, is often, and incorrectly, declared a “dead” medium. The reality is that the channel's foundational strength remains, with global email ...

Rivalry, competition and hostility define US–China relations today. Yet their cooperation during the Second World War laid the foundations of China’s modern navy and influenced Asia’s maritime order.

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