Small populations of Melanesians — among the most genetically diverse people on the planet — have significant differences in their mitochondrial DNA that...
Many scholars say the panels are out of control, curtailing academic freedom and interfering with research. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/arts/28board.html...
As More Children Receive Diagnoses, Effects of These Labels Seem Mixed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301785.html...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325931.300?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg1932\ 5931.300 03 March 2007 Dan Jones Magazine issue 2593 Did our ancestors...
One way to overcome your own mortality is to produce a dynasty. A thriving flock of descendants can sustain themselves, generation after generation, passing...
New research in Current Directions in Psychological Science shows that shyness in kids could relate to the manner in which a stress-related gene in children...
The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting...
IS THE NARCISSISM of young people a fearsome national problem? http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-howe2mar02,0,4956647.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail ...
A spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of...
A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even...
A New Zealand scientist who claimed that Maori carry a "warrior" gene that makes them more prone to violent and aggressive behaviour stands by his research,...
In this week's Big Question, National Review columnist John Derbyshire and Jewcy's own Joey Kurtzman mix it up over the question "Is Kevin MacDonald right...
At a laboratory in Germany, volunteers slide into a donut-shaped MRI machine and perform simple tasks, such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers,...
Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach...
Ick factor aside, ancient tartar-encrusted teeth may be a biological gold mine for scientists, thanks to a new technique for extracting food particles from...
Psychologists have been fond of stating in recent years that human happiness, or what psychologists call subjective well-being, is largely independent of our...
A painstaking scan of the DNA of tumor cells shows hundreds of previously unsuspected genes are involved in cancer, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding...