Once Living in the Shadows, UCLA Student Takes Pride in His Binational Status
Human Biology and Society student featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article.
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Intervention in 6-month-olds with Autism Ameliorates Symptoms, Alleviates Developmental Delay
Treatment at the earliest age when symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear – sometimes in infants as young as 6 months old – significantly reduces symptoms so that, by…
Nature or Nurture? It’s All About the Message
Were Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci born brilliant or did they acquire their intelligence through effort? No one knows for sure, but telling people the latter – that hard…
Walking Fish Reveal How Our Ancestors Evolved Onto Land
Researchers at McGill University published in the journal Nature, turned to a living fish, called Polypterus, to help show what might have happened when fish first attempted to walk out…
Human Altruism Traces Back To the Origins of Humanity
Humans are generally highly cooperative and often impressively altruistic, quicker than any other animal species to help out strangers in need. A new study suggests that our lineage got that…
Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly? Blame the Brain.
Humans are late bloomers when compared with other primates—they spend almost twice as long in childhood and adolescence as chimps, gibbons, or macaques do. But why? One widely accepted but…