When fasting or facing a food shortage, the body engages metabolic and behavioral adaptations to survive. How the brain coordinates and regulates these responses has not been clear, but researchers at ...

In this three-part series, we'll explore what common childhood trauma adaptations are, why and how they can be like superpowers (not only when we’re children but also as adults), why and how these ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is sometimes argued that road safety measures or automobile safety standards fail to save lives because safer highways or safer cars induce ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...

Amphibians in general, and plethodontid salamanders in particular, are highly susceptible to cutaneous water loss. We compared behavior, habitat use, and physiology of Batrachoseps attenuatus ...

Dawn Chen, a postdoctoral reseacrher in the University of Pennsylvania is part of a research team that discovered a novel female adaptation in fruit flies that promotes prolonged courtship in their ...