A universal approach to helping people who witnessed or experience genocide may be misguided, says an anthropologist. The experience of genocide as transmitted trauma may not be universal but in the…

Women scientists in primatology are poorly represented at symposia organized by men, but receive equal representation when symposia organizers are women or mixed groups, according to an analysis…

In 1428 AD, while King Alfonso V was ordering Sicilian Jews into conversion sermons and the Ottomans were consolidating in Europe, the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan…

Serial killers and recidivist criminals of all kinds lack empathy.  So do some people with poor social skills. A compassion-based meditation program called Cognitively-Based Compassion…

A skull fragment unearthed in Tanzania verifies that our ancient ancestors were eating meat at least 1,500,000 years ago and that can tell us something about the evolution of human physiology and…

Children's television is 'problematic', according to a new paper in the Journal of Communication. While there is no physical bullying in these shows, what the authors consider an 'alarming'…

Dentistry has been around for almost long as people have had teeth go bad but evidence for dentistry is another matter entirely. We don't pull off an arm when it is sore so the first human to figure…

In a long-term marriage,  men tend to drink less than they did while single. That's good.  But women drink more, say sociologists.  The results are based on surveys and interviews, so…

British women no longer feel inferior next to sassy siren Spaniards or chic French women. They are taller - in heels, anyway. Brits sport a towering 3.3 inch heel on average.  3,792 women across…

Modern feminists pooh-pooh their ancestors and assume because they didn't dress in bulky pantsuits, women were somehow meek and timid. Not at all. A three-year study of the manuscripts compiled…