Aggression

Aggression

Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
chimpanzees
Chimpanzees are able to consider the context of social interactions and can accept unfavorable outcomes — sometimes.
Dark personality traits include psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. Is there room for empathy?
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
dog domestication
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man's nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
chimpanzee war
From 1974 to 1978, the chimps of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania were at war with each other, the first time conservationists saw chimps engage in calculated, cold-blooded killing.
If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]