LAST FEB. 11, A FORMER ARKANSAS STATE employee named Paula Jones called a press conference in Washington and claimed that on May 8, 1991, Gov. Bill Clinton asked her to meet him in a Little Rock hotel ...

In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when “sleeping with someone was almost like shaking hands,” womanizers had a certain allure, according to Norris Church Mailer in her charming new memoir A Ticket to ...

Females are coy and males are ardent. This was Darwin’s somewhat Victorian portrayal of the sexes in his book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. The myth that males are naturally ...

Promiscuity could reduce benefits of successful mating, research shows. Mating with a large number of partners may not be as good an indicator of success as it appears, new research has shown. Instead ...

When my 11-year-old got her tetanus shot during her checkup last week, her pediatrician did not tell her that it was now safe to go dance barefoot on rusty nails. Which got me wondering about a recent ...

The idea that men try to impregnate as many women as possible while women try to hold on to a provider is derived from fruit fly behavior. Its applicability to humans is becoming increasingly ...

A team of researchers has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins -- one of the building blocks of human life. The ...

This post is in response to Dr. Steven Reiss's recent piece on motivational analysis vs. psychodynamic analysis of behavior, which I found exceedingly interesting and provocative. Reiss analyzes ...

Promiscuity mixes up the gene pool and dilutes genetic differences between populations, slowing down the evolution of new species, says new research. Promiscuity mixes up the gene pool and dilutes ...

Today’s shoppers are operating in a completely unrestrained informational environment, full of seemingly endless places to get input during the purchase journey. They aren’t bound by traditional ...

Animals aren’t well known for their monogamy. The name of the game is spreading the seed, and the more eggs you can fertilize, the better. The cost of being monogamous typically outweighs the benefits ...