Why do pregnancies last longer in some species than others? Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found the clock that sets the speed of embryonic development and discovered the mechanism is ...

One of the ideas that is most commonly connected with the name of John Fiske is that of the primary social importance of infancy. He has worked out in some detail the value of the long dependence of ...

Background: Temperament is a core construct in personality neuroscience, reflecting biologically based differences in emotional reactivity and self-regulation. Traditionally attributed to genetic and ...

Scientists have visualised the short pregnancy of a small species of the kangaroo and wallaby family of marsupials, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), for the first time by high-resolution ...

Melita plumulosa is an epibenthic estuarine amphipod that has recently been adopted in Australia as a test organism for the evaluation of estuarine-sediment toxicity. In this study, the embryological ...