Ever wondered why you vibe with certain people more than others or why some days you’re all about socializing and other days ...

Trait evolution is not predictable ... Although the ladder of life idea was central to the evolutionary theories advanced by many of his predecessors, Charles Darwin largely rejected the ladder ...

Highly sensitive people (HSPs) experience the world more intensely, with unique strengths in empathy and creativity but also ...

Five-Factor Theory: Personality Is Based on Biology Using the Big Five traits (or five-factor model) as a foundation, Five-Factor Theory proposes that the development of common personality traits ...

Those of us who never felt loved as a child tend to exhibit certain traits. These characteristics are not definitive, but ...

How could this trait be explained? And did this fly disprove the basic premise of the chromosome theory? In the Morgan lab's search to make sense of the white-eyed female, Lilian Vaughn Morgan ...

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain limestone quarry grabbed the spotlight.

A pair of psychologists in the U.K. report that there is no scientific basis for the idea that personality traits influence ...

Many people have just one copy, the other being normal. Those who carry the sickle cell trait do not suffer nearly as severely from the disease. Researchers found that the sickle cell gene is ...

No one was sure how animals or plants passed down traits. And Darwin knew that the lack of an explanation for heredity left a big gap in his theory of natural selection. In one of the great ...