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Pregnancy in Horses: Helping Horses Come to Term
It is not only humans that
sometimes experience
difficulty having children.
Horses too have a low birth
rate, with many pregnancies
failing within the first few
... > full story
Both Parents Experience Highs and Lows in Sexuality After Childbirth
Partners of new mothers
often experience shifts in
sexuality, and these shifts
are often unrelated to
biological or medical
... > full story
BPA Exposure Disrupts Human Egg Maturation
Exposure to BPA
(Bisphenol-A) could be a
contributing factor as to
why some infertile couples
are having difficulty
conceiving. ... > full story
Monogamy Evolved as a Mating Strategy: New Research Indicates That Social Monogamy Evolved as a Result of Competition
Social monogamy, where one
breeding female and one
breeding male are closely
associated with each other
over several breeding
... > full story
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Obesity Doesn’t Reduce Chance of Getting Pregnant With Donor Eggs, Study Finds
July 31, 2013 — In women who use donor eggs to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF), those who are obese are just as likely to become pregnant as normal weight women, according to a new ... > full story -
Hot Flashes? Thank Evolution
July 29, 2013 — A study of mortality and fertility patterns among seven species of wild apes and monkeys and their relatives, compared with similar data from hunter-gatherer humans, shows that menopause sets humans ... > full story -
Evolution of Monogamy in Humans the Result of Infanticide Risk, New Study Suggests
July 29, 2013 — The threat of infants being killed by unrelated males is the key driver of monogamy in humans and other primates, a new study ... > full story -
Evolution of Diverse Sex-Determining Mechanisms in Mammals
July 29, 2013 — Researchers have found that a genetic process among the many species of rodents could have significant implications regarding our assumptions about sex determination and the pace of ... > full story -
Simulated Hibernation Aids Toad Work
July 25, 2013 — A partnership with the Memphis Zoo brought a colony of threatened toads from the Colorado Rockies to Mississippi State University. Researchers there joined the ranks of those trying to learn how to ... > full story -
Are North Atlantic Right Whales Mating in the Gulf of Maine?
July 24, 2013 — Using data obtained during six years of regular aerial surveys and genetics data collected by a consortium of research groups, scientists have strengthened evidence pointing to the central Gulf of ... > full story -
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy Associated With Offspring Conduct Problems, Study Suggests
July 24, 2013 — New research examines relationship between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring conduct problems among ... > full story -
Male Guppies Ensure Successful Mating With Genital Claws
July 24, 2013 — Some males will go to great lengths to pursue a female and take extreme measures to hold on once they find one that interests them, even if that affection is unrequited. New research from ... > full story -
Bees 'Betray' Their Flowers When Pollinator Species Decline
July 22, 2013 — Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: their floral "sweethearts" produce significantly fewer seeds. The results show how reduced competition among ... > full story -
How to Survive Without Sex: Rotifer Genome Reveals Its Strategies
July 22, 2013 — How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid ... > full story
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