Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual ...

NEW YORK — Dating out of your league? New research says it’s a tale as old as time. A study published in the journal Science ...

Of all the pesticides out there, few have sparked more controversy than glyphosate. The world’s most used weed killer, ...

Society / We are seeing yet another example of state-sanctioned violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed outside the national body. Ira Memaj When Cecil Elvir-Quinonez was pulled over ...

New treatments for male infertility could widen therapeutic options and possibly shift the treatment burden from women.

At the highest level sits ideational survival. Humans care about legacy, cultural continuity, and symbolic immortality. Religious systems, moral codes, and philosophical doctrines often function to ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

A recent study reveals that people who are highly open to new experiences tend to have fewer children. Scientists attribute this to delayed parenthood, shorter romantic relationships, and a lower ...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder that is characterized by psychosis, making it difficult for a person to tell what is real. It impacts about one per cent of the Canadian population ...

"Primate mothers are some of the best mothers you will find in the animal kingdom," one expert said. So what happened with Punch's mom?

"At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces." In this book excerpt, Lise Barnéoud explores the limitations of DNA testing.