Evolution of language: FOXP2 and human uniqueness in religious perspective
...impanzees are highly social animals with different behaviors and even distinct dialects in the expression of "pant-hoots." Perhaps then language, expression, and culture are not one thing, but different species develop verbal and non-verbal communication and transmission of culture suitable to survival in dif...Investing in environment pays off at 100-1, says paper published in Science this week
...ound the globe, that promote ecologically damaging behaviors that don't make sense economically. For example, many governments subsidize logging by building logging roads and selling logging rights to public lands at well below market value. "By reallocating the funds that are supporting perverse subsidies...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
...AO A genotype and maltreatment predicts antisocial behaviors about as well as high cholesterol predicts heart disease." Low levels of the MAO A enzyme may help explain why some abused children are more likely to develop aggressive or criminal behavior, but Moffitt stresses that it does not explain why people a...Genes, maltreatment, and the cycle of violence
...order, and we have no clear set of pre-symptomatic behaviors that would allow us to categorize a particular you... are born already with propensities for aggressive behaviors that can be socially destructive and even self-destructive. Through studies such as this one, scienc...Energy Department awards $103 million for post-genomic research
...p computational tools to predict the functions and behaviors of complex biological systems. More information on the Genomes to Life program is available at: http://DOEGenomesToLife.org Fiscal Year 2002 Genomes to Life Research Awards Award to Oak Ridge National Laboratory $23.4 million over 3 years ...Sex genes of fish disrupted by common household products
...heir sexual physiology, small adjustments in their behaviors would be equally fruitless." A growing number of scientists theorize that endocrine disrupting compounds in the water behaves chemically like hormones in fish tissues and cells. When compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, certain plas...Mouse model mimics natural development of epilepsy
...ell over and began to shake their heads and limbs, behaviors characteristic of seizures. To see if these episodes were in fact seizures, the team recorded brain activity in affected animals and in normal mice using electroencephalography (EEG). EEG recordings verified that the affected mice had frequent seizur...Rats depleted of salt become sensitized to amphetamine, show unusual growth of brain cells
...umans. It is associated with regulating motivated behaviors of such natural drives as those for food and salt,...timulant effects of the drugs were measured by two behaviors the number of taped lines each animal crossed over and how many times it reared up on its hind feet...The pathway to anxiety begins early in life
...They then could monitor the resulting anxiety-like behaviors in the animals. First, they identified the locations in the brain that were important for the anxious behavior. When they shut off activity of the receptor in one part of the brain and there was no effect, they surmised th...Two genetic suspects are identified in the mystery of why we need to sleep
...mine more advanced possibilities for sleep related behaviors and afflictions that impact humans. For example, findings may suggest treatments and behavior modifications that eliminate or minimize the impacts of: Night shift work Sleep disorders Jet lag to name a few The next research phase of Shaw and ...Can we learn about sex from animals?
...gists, to elucidate human behavior, especially our behaviors that pertain to sex and gender. For example, some...ry that many supposedly feminist relationships and behaviors are much more common among animals than had previously been believed. It turns out, for example, th...From arts to neurobiology versatile Duke scientist chosen for NSF Waterman Award
... complicated learning systems. Birds that imitate behaviors I felt would be good to study brain function, he said. During his advanced scientific training, Jarvis once explained that like a dancer, he would choreograph things in order to invent experiments and be disciplined to practice over and over aga...Gene plays key evolutionary role in food-gathering behaviors
...evolutionary role in the changes of food-gathering behaviors in many creatures. When honeybees (Apis mellifera)...evolutionary role in the changes of food-gathering behaviors in many creatures. Second, it demonstrates how the same gene in different species can be responsive...Obesity may exacerbate a heart disorder in African American females
...od obesity are becoming epidemic in America. These behaviors are more prevalent in children than ever before. Low levels of physical activity and poor dietary habits are causes of childhood obesity, a condition associated with risk factors for adult chronic diseases. Background Previous studies reveal that A...Yeast underscores complexity of genetic variation between people
...ch range from diseases like diabetes and cancer to behaviors like violence and aggression, have been notoriously difficult to study in humans and other mammals, the systems in which most such analyses have been conducted. While yeast provides a powerful new avenue for studying natural variation that results fr...Angry young men prone to premature heart disease
...p period, information on family history and health behaviors has been collected. For this report, the investigators tracked 1,055 men for an average of 36 years following medical school to examine the risk of premature and total cardiovascular disease associated with anger responses to stress during early adul...Progress in the genetics of autism
...nin transporter inhibitors in reducing ritualistic behaviors and related aggression. SLC6A4 and its flanking regions were sequenced in 10 probands, followed by typing of 20 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and seven simple sequence repeat (SSR) polymorphisms in 155 autism trios. Four markers showed str...Some animals can recognize degree of kinship by scent
...n, the study examines potentially risky nepotistic behaviors that are shown to close relatives. It aims to answer the questions: How do social animals, such as Belding's ground squirrels, determine which other animals have a genome so similar to theirs that helping them survive is like perpetuating one's own ...Dietary changes can lower colon cancer risk in families with a history of the disease
...bits were recorded in the database. He focused on behaviors known to be associated with colon cancer to see if any were particularly helpful or harmful in people with a family history of the disease. He found three: A diet high in folic acid, high in methionine (an essential amino acid), and low in alcohol in......dern human and Neandertal populations) in adaptive behaviors brought on by changes in population density. In pa...pe that would have intensified selection for these behaviors and that accounts for the dramatic increase that we see in the incidence of art in the archaeologica...