Seymour Benzer, the Caltech biologist who made key findings about the structure and function of genes and pioneered research linking genes to behavior, died...
Scientists say they are beginning to make real progress in pinning down the genetic basis of common diseases. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7121026.stm...
Even the tone deaf will be enthralled by Oliver Sack's Musicophilia and Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music - two books that explain music's power -...
Ever since the Nobel prize winner James D. Watson asserted six weeks ago that Africans have innately lower intelligence, fervid debates about race, genes and...
The natural "high" produced by exercise could one day be available in a pill that targets a gene in our brains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7116891.stm...
Clark is after deep answers. He proposes to explain why the stagnation lasted so long, why it ended with the close of the eighteenth century and not much...
Many people assume that superior intelligence or ability is a key to success. But more than three decades of research shows that an overemphasis on intellect...
The spirit of giving may lie in an individual person's genetic makeup, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Hebrew University's psychology...
Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7124156.stm...
Almost every major point made by this charlatan Nisbett is either misleading or a complete lie. Here are just two examples: "About 25 percent of the genes in...
Scientists believe they have located a new brain area essential for good memory - the "irrelevance filter". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7132829.stm...
The pace of human evolution has been increasing at a stunning rate since our ancestors began spreading through Europe, Asia and Africa 40,000 years ago,...
Researchers analyzing variation in the human genome have concluded that human evolution accelerated enormously in the last 40,000 years under the force of...
Human pygmies around the world are smaller than average because they tend to live very short lives, in some communities as little as 16 years, a new study...
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