The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) forms part of an international consortium that is preparing the Tree of Sex project, an ambitious initiative aimed at decoding the evolutionary complexity ...

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

The cellular biology of reproduction is often depicted as an epic journey, in which millions of intrepid sperm fight to be the first to claim the ultimate prize: the chance to fertilize the egg, which ...

Women usually live longer than men, and animals show the same pattern. Evolution, genes, and parenting explain why.

We can quickly dismiss the claim that copulation during pregnancy is unique to humans. It is easy to understand how this myth originated. Copulation after conception seemingly serves no useful ...

Sponsored by Australian Academy of Science, Australian Society for Reproductive Biology, Society for the Study of Fertility. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...

Plants and the march of progress Museums often depict animal evolution as a straight-line progression toward higher stages, ...

The colonisation of land by plants was one of the most important evolutionary steps on earth; it subsequently affected all other terrestrial evolutionary processes. Leaving the aquatic environment ...

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its predecessors. This is the process of ...