The evolution of sex, gender, mating strategies, and social relationships are hot topics in the study of nonhuman and human behavior. 1 People from many different disciplines are weighing on these and ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Floral morphology is expected to evolve following the transition from cosexuality to gender dimorphism in plants, as selection through male and female function becomes ...

Sexuality and gender are often at the forefront of cultural and political debate today. In his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern ...

Historically, choosing a name for a newborn has been strongly tied to gender. Names like "Mary" or "John" were unmistakably feminine or masculine, respectively. This tradition reflected a society with ...

The first global study to investigate how gender equality may be associated with life expectancy has found that both women and men live longer as it improves. The first global study to investigate how ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The natural world is full of sexual diversity—traits that challenge binary definitions of male and female—but traditional ...

From 1974: Whitworth College was offering a new and startling course titled “Sexual Identity and the Development of Human Potential.” According to one of the students enrolled in the course, the ...

Warning: Beware of people addicted to controlling others. They will focus on the most intimate decisions of your life: your body, your gender and gender identity, your sexuality and sexual orientation ...