Deadbeat granddads, life-shortening sons and genetically bullying brothers—these are just a few effects revealed in biologist Virpi Lummaa's studies of how...
Has anyone had luck with a particular company DNA testing company? How controversial are the results of mixed ethnic heritage tests? I'm constantly told I look...
The sabretooth tiger may have looked a fearsome sight with its massive canines but its reputation takes something of a knock with a new piece of research. ...
A surprising study of elderly people suggests that those who see themselves as self-disciplined, organized achievers have a lower risk for developing...
Relationships in which close friends begin having sex come with their own brand of awkwardness, according to the first study to explore the dynamics of such...
The inventor's trial-and-error approach can be automated by software that mimics natural selection http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9896323...
Italian food producers, consumers and conservation groups hope to get three million signatures in a petition drive to ban genetically modified food, a move...
For as long as there have been human beings on earth — stretching back to our animal inheritance — we have been bedeviled by a peculiar need, as insistent...
The view through a new window into the climatic changes in northeastern Africa suggests that it was a wetter climate that encouraged humans to migrate out of...
"Survival of the fittest" has popularly described evolution for more than a century, but a new study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters...
The H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily, although it still has not transformed into a pandemic strain, researchers said on Thursday. ...
Ultralight video cameras fastened to crows' tail feathers have shown that the birds use a greater variety of tools and foraging techniques than had previously...
The two closely related bird species, the collared flycatcher and the pied flycatcher, can reproduce with each other, but the females are more strongly...
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. ...
Polymorphisms in the dopamine D4 and D2 receptor genes and reproductive and sexual behaviors Abstract: Human reproductive and sexual behaviors are heritable...
As dads have begun to act more like moms, old notions of masculinity have come into question http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1668449,00.html...
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