The bigger hurdle appears not to be entering academia but staying in it: An international study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that, despite high entry rates, w...

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Translational Psychiatry - Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits

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Four parallels between cosmetic surgery and polygenic embryo selection, two competing definitions of "eugenics," and one short excerpt from my forthcoming book

About a decade ago, I was invited to participate in a debate on the topic “eugenics: for and against.” The contribution that I published was called “Defending Eugenics: from cryptic choice to consciou...

Güllich et al. argue that among elite performers there is a negative associationbetween early and adult performance, a pattern they link to distinct developmentalcausal mechanisms for early, and adult...

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Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

On starting places, "missing environmentality," and the Waddington landscape of life

Die Familienunternehmer öffnen sich für die AfD. Dabei lebt die Wirtschaft von offenen Märkten, Stabilität und Vielfalt. Es ist ihre Aufgabe, diese Werte zu verteidigen.

WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...

Following up on Sasha

Not with a bang but with a whimper

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...

The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.

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