We like to draw a line between humans and animals, a clear divide built on memory, empathy, and invention. But that line doesn’t always hold. Apes steal territory. Parrots ace memory tests. Bees react ...

Humans ask what things mean. Animals move on. That difference explains both our brilliance and much of our psychological ...

Learn how people across cultures accept animal empathy while viewing human thinking as fundamentally different.

Last time I started to look at the seemingly huge gap between the minds of humans and those of other animals, and how it was fashionable in some circles to deny its existence. Nobody squawked about ...

PHOENIX — Telling the difference between an animal and a human bone can make or break an investigation. “Search and rescue people go out obviously looking for people and in the process they run across ...

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we may have evolved slower healing at some point in our ancestry. When you ...