Humans have a positive view of nature. But is this due to an approach we have learned while growing up, or is it something we are born with? The answer is 'Both', according to researchers. Humans have ...

The worst scares of my life have usually come in unfamiliar places. I still panic a bit when I remember traveling into a Sumatran jungle only to discover my brother, Ben, had dengue fever. I lose a ...

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Luckily, acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer is here to unravel the tangled history of the science and pseudoscience surrounding heredity, in all its many forms. In his expansive, engrossing, and ...

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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity Carl Zimmer Dutton (2018) Few subjects have afforded more room for doubt, or caused more harm through false certainty, ...

Our concept of heredity is based on the idea that we inherit certain genes and traits from our parents and ancestors. But as science writer Carl Zimmer points out in his new book, it's not that simple ...

The Elephant Man, novelist Pearl S. Buck and Phoebus, god of the sun, all find their way into science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book. In She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, Zimmer uses famous moments in ...

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Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey near ...