Human Fertility, Molecular Genetics, and Natural Selection in Modern Societies

Human Fertility, Molecular Genetics, and Natural Selection in Modern Societies

Research on genetic influences on human fertility outcomes such as number of children ever born (NEB) or the age at first childbirth (AFB) has been solely based on twin and family-designs that suffer from problematic assumptions and practical limitations. The current study exploits recent advances in the field of molecular genetics by applying the genomic-relationship-matrix based restricted ma...

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

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Modern Science and the Human Fertility Problem

sumption that libido is basically pleasure-seeking, and proposes instead Fairbairn's view that it seeks contact with objects: for example, the infant's mouth becomes erotized because it is the route toward, or the bodily structure for, contacting the libidinally desired object (the breast). Stanton, in discussing object choice, would add knowledge of social and group behavior theory to the trad...

Traditional and Modern Uses of Natural Honey in Human Diseases: A Review

  Honey is a by-product of flower nectar and the upper aero-digestive tract of the honey bee, which is concentrated through a dehydration process inside the bee hive. Honey has a very complex chemical composition that varies depending on the botanical source. It has been used both as food and medicine since ancient times. Human use of honey is traced to some 8000 years ago as depicted by Stone ...