A trio of researchers with Boston University and Dartmouth College has found that one of our ancient ancestors likely had a much easier time giving birth than modern humans. In their paper published on the open-access site ...
Shorter intervals between primate births are associated with higher mortality rates in offspring, finds a new study of macaque monkeys. The results are consistent with previous research on human birth intervals, suggesting ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2019
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A team of researchers from the University of Pisa and CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon has observed captive female bonobos helping one of their own give birth. In their paper published in the journal Evolution and Human ...
During the last decades, rates of Caesarean section have multiplied; by now it is one of the most frequently performed surgical treatments worldwide. Even if many of these C-sections are not strictly medically indicated, ...
Evolution
Oct 16, 2017
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(Phys.org) —Experiments at UW-Madison with a small squid that glows in the dark have uncovered a complex conversation that allows the newly hatched squid to attract the glowing, symbiotic bacteria that disguises it against ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2013
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Gene wars rage inside our cells, with invading DNA regularly threatening to subvert our human blueprint. Now, building on Nobel-Prize-winning findings, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a molecular machine that ...
Biotechnology
Feb 14, 2013
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When humans have parasites, the organisms live in our bodies, co-opt our resources and cause disease. However, it turns out that parasites themselves can have their own co-habitants.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2012
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The newly observed phenomenon of "honesty drain" can subtract human capital and economic resources from areas where the tendency to break rules is higher, according to "Rule Breaking, Honesty and Migration," a paper by Massimo ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2023
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From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, "monstrous births"—malformed or anomalous fetuses—were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an object of the "modern ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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The number of armed conflicts currently raging around the world is the greatest since the end of the Second World War. These wars can leave toxic environmental legacies and cause untold damage to human health.
Environment
Jan 25, 2023
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