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Anthropologists, psychologists, and biologists traded research findings on conditions that foster cooperation across social boundaries

When Joseph Henrich, an anthropologist at Harvard University, agreed to study the question of whether his field is overly politicized, he knew he “wasn’t going to make everyone happy,” he says.

Deep in the Congo Basin, Harvard PhD candidate and Pan Lab member Lily Fornof looks at how motherhood shapes the social lives of wild bonobos, one of humanity's closest genetic relatives, spending months at a time living alongside the primates at the...

Brain scans reveal how selective breeding and individual training have forged canine communication skills. Postdoctoral fellow Mélina Cordeau and Associate Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology Erin Hecht hypothesized that dogs’ brains have been shaped...

The Harvard Gazette features a quiz based on Daniel Lieberman’s new book, which looks at food fads through an evolutionary lens.

Mélina Cordeau, a postdoc at HEB, is interviewed for her work with postdoc Sophie Barton and Associate Professor Erin Hecht, who leads the Canine Brains Project.

The Harvard Gazette features an excerpt from Daniel Lieberman's new book “Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well.”

David Reich, professor at Harvard Medical School and HEB, explains how ancient DNA is rewriting what we thought we knew about human history on Veritalk

A new study shows how natural selection for locomotion reshaped both extremities.