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A study across 18 western countries has found that left-handed people sit on the left of the political spectrum and the data suggests it has more to do with identity than biology.
While genes do influence some food preferences, positive experiences can help make new tastes easier to swallow.
New research estimates genetic heritability of lifespan at 50% – double previous estimates.
Is our lifespan primarily dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role?
Why do some countries produce far more entrepreneurs than others? Personality and education both play a part.
Humans aren’t the only animals to learn survival tricks from each other.
Genetic research on human behaviour has long been linked with eugenics and continues to attract interest from far-right groups.
A new paper describes the idea of “genetic nurture”, where parents’ genes, even those not passed on to their child, have major effects on kids’ health and educational attainment.
Handedness is the tendency to prefer using one hand over the other to perform certain tasks. But how did we get this way?
There are two schools of thought to explain people’s height phobias: evolutionary and behavioural.
The symptoms of ‘schizophrenia’ are very real, but experts are looking for a better way to define them.
Why research that links our social behaviour to our genes is still controversial today.
It is an illness that runs in families – but there are other factors which go beyond inheritance.
Even if intelligence has a genetic basis, this doesn’t make educational intervention pointless.
Several brain regions engage in an amazing symphony to produce music. What then are the benefits of music training on a child?
Research that finds links between genes and intelligence could worsen social inequality.
Teenagers are heavily influenced by what their friends eat, to the extent that they forget about their parents’ cooking.
Epigenetics is increasingly used as a buzzword to sell pseudoscientific products, but the truth of epigenetics is even more interesting – and complex – than the quacks claim.
The idea that children can inherit the ability to get good results at school can spark heated debate. But, put simply, all this means is that children differ in how easy and enjoyable they find learning…
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