This has been a wonderful summer of international meetings concerning the fascinating, complex, and frustrating relationships that exist between humans and other animals ("animals"). Topics have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact between different groups often drives change. A new study led by an ...

Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...