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• Gender Difference
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  Male Dancers Signal Their Strength to Men and Women

  January 28, 2013 — Heterosexual men pick up clues about other men’s physical qualities from their dance moves just as heterosexual women ... > full story
• Extreme Survival
  Wild Animals
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  Zoology
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  Bats Split on Family Living

  January 24, 2013 — For the tiny Daubenton's bat, the attractions of family life seem to vary more with altitude than with the allure of the opposite ... > full story
• Diseases and Conditions
  Chronic Illness
  Parkinson's Research
  Epigenetics
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  Fertility
   
  

  Jet Fuel, Plastics Exposures Cause Disease in Later Generations; Reproductive Diseases, Obesity

  January 24, 2013 — Researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal's offspring. Among them: BPA and jet fuel. And they see ... > full story
• Epigenetics
  Genes
  Stem Cells
  Brain Tumor
  Gene Therapy
  Parkinson's Research
   
  

  Scientists Discover How Epigenetic Information Could Be Inherited: Mechanism of Epigenetic Reprogramming Revealed

  January 24, 2013 — New research reveals a potential way for how parents' experiences could be passed to their offspring's ... > full story
• Monkeys
  Mating and Breeding
  Animals
  Endangered Animals
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  Owl Monkeys Who 'Stay True' Reproduce More Than Those With Multiple Partners

  January 23, 2013 — Breaking up is hard to do -- and can be detrimental to one's reproductive fitness, according to a new study. Focusing on wide-eyed, nocturnal owl monkeys, considered a socially monogamous species, ... > full story
• Evolutionary Biology
  Apes
  Wild Animals
  Nature
  Behavioral Science
  Mating and Breeding
   
  

  Benefits of Social Grooming in Wild Chimpanzees: Hormone Oxytocin Facilitates Cooperation

  January 23, 2013 — Animals which maintain cooperative relationships show gains in longevity and offspring survival. However, little is known about the cognitive or hormonal mechanisms involved in cooperation. ... > full story
• Gender Difference
  Birth Control
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  Erectile Dysfunction
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  New Study Reveals Sex to Be Pleasurable With or Without Use of a Condom or Lubricant

  January 23, 2013 — American men and women rated sex as highly arousing and pleasurable regardless of whether condoms and/or lubricants were used, according to a new ... > full story
• Relationships
  Social Psychology
  Popular Culture
  Racial Disparity
  Gender Difference
  Psychology
   

  New Study Examines On/off Relationships and 'Sex With an Ex' Among Teenagers and Young Adults

  January 22, 2013 — A new study finds that nearly half of older teenagers and young adults break up and get back together with previous dating partners and over half of this group have sex as part of the reconciliation ... > full story
• Early Birds
  Birds
  Bird Flu Research
  Fossils
  Dinosaurs
  Nature
   
  

  Sex of Early Birds Suggests Dinosaur Reproductive Style: New Way to Identify Gender of Ancient Avian Species

  January 22, 2013 — Paleontologists have discovered a way to determine the sex of a prehistoric bird species. Confuciusornis sanctus, a 125-million-year-old Mesozoic bird, had remarkable differences in plumage -- some ... > full story
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Computer Modeling
  Mathematical Modeling
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  New Tool for Selecting Embryos in Fertility Treatments

  January 21, 2013 — Scientists have developed a new tool, a mathematical model to be exact, to help in the selection of embryos for transfer in fertility treatments. The model is especially useful for transfers of ... > full story

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