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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have identified and described a previously unknown ...

A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.

An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, ...

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The letter posed an uneasy question to Harden: if we’re all condemned to our genetics, could this boy really be to blame for his heinous crimes? When Harden, a professor of psychology at the ...

Political leaders like United States President Donald Trump and business oligarchs like Elon Musk have increasingly suggested that human behaviour and social outcomes are rooted in genetics. Trump has ...