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Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values that are novel in human evolution

More intelligent people are significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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A post-coital switch: Mapping the changing behaviors in the female fruit fly's mind

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then it shouldn't be surprising that their neural circuits differ. In research published today in the journal Current Biology, researchers have used dramatic change ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Faithful females who choose good providers key to evolutionary shift to modern family, study finds

In early human evolution, when faithful females began to choose good providers as mates, pair-bonding replaced promiscuity, laying the foundation for the emergence of the institution of the modern family, a new study finds.

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created May 28, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?

(AP) -- Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Power of love at heart of 'gay marriage'

Legal rights and protections play second fiddle to the power of love for younger gay and lesbian couples who have formed civil partnerships, according to a three-year study by researchers at The University ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Songbird brain synapses and glial cells capable of synthesizing estrogen

Colin Saldanha, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C., has always been intrigued by the hormone estrogen. Specifically, how the hormone that does so much (for example, it promotes sexual behavior ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's super hero sexism

As parents do their final holiday shopping, comic books, and their related superhero-themed toys and children's gear, continue to be popular. From Batman rain boots and Legos, to paperback books about Wonder Woman, many stores ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Deep-sea fish in deep trouble

A team of leading marine scientists from around the world is recommending an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea, the Earth's largest ecosystem. Instead, they recommend fishing in more productive waters nearer ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researcher argues that sex reduces genetic variation

Biology textbooks maintain that the main function of sex is to promote genetic diversity. But Henry Heng, Ph.D., associate professor in WSU's Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, says that's not the case.

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 14

To flirt or not to flirt, that is the question

(PhysOrg.com) -- After studying male desert goby fish, a team of Monash researchers has suggested that male sexual behaviour is primed to produce the greatest number of offspring.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ankle bracelet will be Strauss-Kahn companion

As former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn settles into house arrest awaiting trial on sexual assault charges his constant companion will be a GPS-equipped ankle bracelet tracking his every move.

Technology / Other

created May 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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