Practising monogamy places humans among tiny ‘premier league’ of mammals, study shows - Human pair bonding is more comparable ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the ...

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...

Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

A large-scale genomic investigation has identified new genetic risk factors for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and revealed substantial overlap with pathways that also predispose individuals to ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

Ancient societies in southern China pegged coffins into high cliffsides in burial ritual linked to good fortune ...

A rare genetic disorder discovered by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues can cause brain damage ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

Australian researchers have for the first time pinpointed specific genetic changes that increase the risk of severe, ...

A recent study revealed a gap in genetic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia, a condition causing high cholesterol ...

Soldiers exposed to the Vietnam War-era defoliant Agent Orange have a higher risk of a rare form of bone marrow cancer, a ...