Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people across ...

Do people across cultures and throughout history agree on which body parts are more or less valuable? Until now, no one had systematically tested whether body parts are valued similarly across ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

The Bible's lex talionis – "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Exodus 21:24-27) – has captured the human imagination for millennia.

Commercial fishing fleets have been playing a key role in the trafficking of parts of tigers poached in Malaysia, according ...

The remains of a body were found Wednesday inside a suitcase floating in the East River, police said. The grizzly discovery ...

Hyderabad police encounter a roadblock in the investigation of a woman's murder by her husband as no body parts have been ...