New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) Newborn girls might spend more time looking at a human face, while infant boys might prefer looking at objects, a new study has found ...

Both nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) play a role in shaping who we are, and their interaction is often the most influential factor in a person's development. Mental health can be ...

For years, researchers have debated how our brains consistently develop areas specialized for recognizing faces, objects, words, and places, despite individuals having vastly different life ...

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and susceptibility to diseases like type 2 diabetes, in a study co-led by ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

The Nature-Nurture question is the big question, It is central for psychiatry, neuroscience, and child development. And of course, the answer is… it is not either/or, but both. But this answer is ...

Prologue : Twelve hairy men -- Paragon of animals -- Plethora of instincts -- Convenient jingle -- Madness of causes -- Genes in the fourth dimension -- Formative years -- Learning lessons -- ...