Few issues in genetic research attract more interest than how genes influence behaviour. The shades of eugenics, the promise of children chosen (or even engineered) for their behavioural constitution, ...

Behavioral genetics is a field of scientific research that examines genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in behavior. Behavioral genetics aims to answer the fundamental ...

Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human behavior, is an enormously complicated undertaking – one that's being made easier by the emergence of massive ...

A new study published in Behavior Genetics offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the ongoing debate over social media's ...

A new study that analyzed the DNA of nearly half a million people has found that while genetic differences play a significant role in sexual preference, there is no single gene responsible. The ...

An eye-opening genetic study recently published in Science Advances explores the genetic connection between human bisexual behavior and a previously unknown reproductive advantage. Ph.D. student ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 73, No. 2 (February 2019), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) As is the case for humans, it has long been thought that nonhuman primates can be described in terms of their ...

The way we associate certain behavioral traits with certain breeds can be a huge factor in our relationships with dogs, from parents with toddlers and family-friendly labradors to couch potatoes and ...

CHICAGO — The largest study of its kind found new evidence that genes contribute to same-sex sexual behavior, but it echoes research that says there are no specific genes that make people gay. The ...