Humans

Your faceless microwave food corporation doesn't love you back.

• By Alana Massey

From "The Wisdom of Music" to "The Human and Animal Bond," academic gatherings you should be aware of.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Until recently, the reigning theory on who the first Homo sapiens in North America were pointed to the Clovis people, evidence of whose culture was discovered in the American Southwest. That theory has been powerfully challenged by, among others, Meadowcroft, an archaeological dig in western Pennsylvania that began in the 1970s.

• By Steve Moyer

Chimps recently figured out a computer game more quickly than humans. It may be because they're so familiar with navigating basic win-lose dynamics.

• By John Upton

DNA doesn't determine race. Society does.

• By Michael White

While the idea of a person falling in love with the Eiffel Tower might seem like a relatively new one, it's a kind of affection that's been around forever.

• By Paul Hiebert

As artificial intelligence advances and our toys become more and more like us, we must consider the ethics of extracting pleasure from the machines.

• By Cody C. Delistraty

Comparisons to machines and information processors hide what's most fascinating about the human body: its underlying randomness.

• By Michael White

Yep, but there's a catch: Our identities might be too fluid for any advantageous mutations to take hold.

• By Michael White