Could the female orgasm be a happy remnant of evolution?
Have scientists solved the mystery of the female orgasm?
Have scientists solved the mystery of the female orgasm?
Evolution
Oct 1, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As a new mother herself, Brenda Lohman admits to being shocked by the results of a new study she co-authored. It found that among nearly 1,000 low-income families in three major cities, one in four children ...
Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2009
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We've heard the clichés: "It was love at first sight," "It's inner beauty that truly matters," and "Opposites attract." But what's really at work in selecting a romantic or sexual partner?
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The duration of sexual intercourse differs wildly across the animal kingdom. Now researchers seeking to understand the evolutionary significance of lengthy copulation duration have found evidence that it ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2011
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Neanderthals and modern humans, tens of thousands of years ago, had sexual intercourse with each other in Europe and Asia. For this reason, we as modern humans still carry Neanderthal DNA in us. Researchers from Edinburgh ...
Archaeology
May 1, 2014
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Russian or Soviet cosmonauts never had sex in space in the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos. And that's official, according to a Russian expert. As for Americans, well, you'd better ask them.
Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2011
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A research group at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University in Japan has used artificial intelligence to determine that piezo, a channel that receives mechanical stimuli, plays a role in controlling the mating posture ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2023
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A team of researchers working at China's Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University has developed a new kind of male contraceptive that is easily reversed. In their paper published in the journal ACS Nano, the group describes ...
Achieving pregnancy has been shown to be more likely between partners who carry dissimilar human leucocyte antigen (HLA) immune genes. Accordingly, humans are expected to choose HLA dissimilar reproductive partners. Earlier ...
Evolution
Aug 19, 2020
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In her first publication in the journal Forensic Science International, Ms. Ruby Dixon demonstrated that bacteria can be transferred between a male and female during sexual intercourse and there is a possibility that bacterial ...
Other
May 17, 2023
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