Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

We’ve blown past the Turing test, but "indistinguishable" isn’t "equivalent." Psychology must continue to learn from people, and there is still a great deal to learn.

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the telegram exchange that sparked an identity crisis for humankind. In 1960 a young Jane Goodall working in a remote ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity invites you to a lecture by Laura Hengehold, chair of the Department of Philosophy, titled, "Relevant to Whom? Anonymous for Whom? How ...

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...