Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether genes are able to compromise between their competing interests can have consequences for development. pressureUA/iStock ...

New evidence reveals that behavior, including hive mentality or groupthink, may be predetermined by genetics. Generally, we consider behavior to be learned. By interacting with the world, different ...

Scientists studying 1,300 golden retrievers have uncovered genetic clues explaining why some dogs are more anxious, energetic, or aggressive than others. Remarkably, several of the same genes linked ...

Am I at risk for developing an alcohol use disorder? Is my child? How would I know? These are questions frequently posed to me as the director of one of the largest addiction research centers in the ...

As parents, we care a lot about our children’s behavior; we want to shape our children into responsible, kind, productive human beings. But very often we ignore one of the biggest things shaping our ...

The human tendency to prefer immediate rewards over long-term goals is partly rooted in our DNA, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Human Biology. The findings suggest ...

In the Republic Book II Plato is addressing paradoxes of human behavior and finds the solution by saying an integral part of human nature is dog-like. Our inner dog seeks belonging and craves to ...

The study provides a comprehensive behavioral dataset of Drosophila melanogaster, categorized by genetic background, sex, and social context (isolated or in groups). Beyond enabling detailed analyses ...

Twin studies can help geneticists determine whether some trait or condition is caused by the environment, or by genetics. Since identical twins carry basically the same genome, if a trait is due to ...

Whether infants at five months of age look mostly at faces or non-social objects such as cars or mobile phones is largely determined by genes. This has now been demonstrated by researchers at Uppsala ...