Understanding humans is essential to the design and experience of a technology. For decades, major corporations have turned to social scientists for insight into human behavior, culture and history.

'Major' Archaeological Development May Help Rewrite Early Human History Published Jun 09, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT Updated Jun 11, 2024 at 10:50 AM EDT By Aristos Georgiou ...

Before evolution gave them the right teeth, early humans were already feasting on grasses and tubers. That bold choice may ...

Colleagues in the National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program and Department of Paleobiology and dozens of collaborators at institutions worldwide worked to analyze the environmental ...

It's time to move beyond models of human behavior centered in genes and natural selection, says anthropologist Barbara J. King, who takes a look at a new paper on the topic.

The unified theory of psychology frames human behavior in terms of three factors: investment, influence, and justification. Investment frames animal behavior patterns in terms of work effort that ...

With the many historical, ongoing, and potential misinterpretations of behavioral genetics research, one may ask: Why even continue to pursue genetically informed research on human behavior? First, ...

Nigel’s second problem with human universals in behavior is empirical. He says “The constants are empirically testable and do not stand up very well. … ...