Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

Every person has had that moment — a deep, internal nudge that seems to come out of nowhere, guiding them in a particular direction. This powerful sensation is often referred to as intuition or ...

How exactly does a newly-hatched spider weave a perfect web that is characteristic of his or her species—without ever even having seen such a web, let alone having been trained to spin one? How do ...

Hiking a glacier with my family and dog, Lovie, I was thinking about the nature of instincts and how both humans and dogs share them—how they help us get along in the world, not having to ponder or ...