Nationalistic behavior can put people, economies and ecosystems, and even peace, at risk. The US, which paused Columbia River talks with Canada, isn’t the only country shifting in this direction.

Reduced to its essence, the process of natural selection would look a lot like play.

Ancient religious customs have accelerated the evolutionary process of humans becoming more cooperative.

‘Mind-reading’ requires the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, predicting their actions and reading their emotions.

Communication helps group members to size up the intentions of the others.

Researchers have discovered that great white sharks are more social than previously thought. Using specialized tags, they tracked six sharks and found that some stay close to each other when hunting.

Life in a honey bee hive is all about cooperating for the collective good.

Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus's spread.