After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on ...

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...