New research shows that variation in mating behaviors, parental care and differences in ornamentation of the sexes in bird ...

Nature often surprises us, much to our delight. In a research project, a biologist follows a standard set of steps: observing a pattern in nature, devising a hypothesis to explain that pattern, and ...

Females are coy and males are ardent. This was Darwin’s somewhat Victorian portrayal of the sexes in his book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. The myth that males are naturally ...

A team of researchers has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins -- one of the building blocks of human life. The ...

In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when “sleeping with someone was almost like shaking hands,” womanizers had a certain allure, according to Norris Church Mailer in her charming new memoir A Ticket to ...