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LAST September, deep in the swamp forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nahoko Tokuyama of Kyoto University in Japan heard a scream.

If someone has committed a serious crime, most people agree that they should be punished more harshly than if they had committed only a minor misdemeanour.

If a man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle, as the feminist slogan has it, can the behaviour of our aquatic ancestors teach us anything about human relations ?

Sex differences in personality are believed to be comparatively small. However, research in this area has suffered from significant methodological limitations. We advance a set of guidelines for overcoming those limitations:

Research in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests a woman's ovarian cycle plays a role in susceptibility to infection. Specifically, researchers found women are most susceptible to infection during ovulation than at any other time during the reproductive cycle.

As male rats become more sexually experienced parts of their brain disappear, whereas in females, these same parts seem to instigate sexual behaviour