If something similar occurs in humans, and given growing evidence that the gut microbiome matters for health, genetic ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

Hooray for the Morapians! I have no idea who they are, but they’ve helped make the effect of genes on politics much clearer. I just read an article that I really like for that very reason. The ...

Gut microbiome composition may be shaped not only by an individual’s own genes but also by the genes of their friends ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Humans carry genes that predispose us to atherosclerosis, the disease that causes heart attacks, because those same genes may have once helped ...

Neanderthals were genetically predisposed to be early birds, and they may have passed on those genes to some humans living today, new research found. Reading time 3 minutes If you’re irritated by the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Churchgoers drink and smoke less than adults who spend their Sundays elsewhere but a U.S. study had found it may not be church attendance itself that explains this -- it ...

When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...

A key gene helps explain how the ability to glide has emerged over-and-over during marsupial evolution by Baylor College of Medicine Editors' notes ...