“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify,” says lead author Joanna Wu, an ornithologist and ecologist at the ...

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

When did the first humans start speaking? Did we always have this ability, inherited from our immediate ancestors? These questions sound impossible to answer — but not quite so. A new study, drawing ...

Explore the development of sociology as a scientific field. Learn how empirical research, data analysis, and technological ...