Trait

Selective eating just an evolutionary trait?

Babies will put almost anything in their mouths. But as children get older, they become more selective about what they eat,// particularly if they have not tried it before. Green vegetables and meat can be particularly troublesome.But scientists say thousands of years ago toxins in plants could have harmed children, and meat carried a high risk of food poisoning.So it makes sense that...

Restless leg syndrome can be a family trait

Restless leg syndrome is a disorder of neurological origin. This condition happens when the urge to move one’s// legs becomes strong even if the person is stationary. The people suffering from the condition suffer from sensations like burning or itching, or even sensations of something crawling on their legs. These sensations are termed as paresthesias or dysesthesias, and may range from unpleasa...

Autistic traits evident in relatives

In a startling revelation, new study demonstrates that relatives of people with autism may display autistic brain differences and behaviours linked to the condition, even though they may not suffer from the disorder themselves. // The work, reported in the New Scientist , was presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience, in Washington DC by Dr Eric Peterson, from th...

Are pretty faces associated with positive trait?

Ingrid Olson, a professor in Penn's Department of Psychology and researcher at Penn's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience conducted an experiment, which reported that people couldn’t resist a pretty face. //The study also said that people associate beauty with positive trait. Participants were given a fraction of a second to assess the trait attractiveness. Participants took very little...

ADHD Risk Pronounced in Children with Extreme Personality Traits

A novel study by the Florida State University has thrown light on certain personality traits in children that presage a risk of an attention// deficit hyperactivity disorder or conduct disorder. Children with personalities that show up as aggressiveness, undue mood swings, aloofness, and a constant need for excitement are said to be under high risk. FSU psychology professors Jeanette...

Sound Of Sneezing Could Speak About Ones Personality Traits

Accordingly to a US body language expert, the way one sneezes or the sound that comes when one sneezes could reveal a lot about the qualities of a person.// Patti A. Wood, an Atlanta-based consultant who created the Achoo IQ Study for Benadryl, said a sneeze could offer a revealing look at someone's personality, reported the online edition of ABC News. Wood categorised snee...

Court Warns People Who Practice Unhealthy Sexual Traits

The California Supreme Court said that partners must inform their spouse about their risky sexual lifestyle and possible exposure to AIDS//. This came down as the court ruling in San Francisco when the case of a divorced husband and wife came to the court. The wife accused the ex-husband of transmitting AIDS to her. Now both the partners suffer from AIDS. Hence the court decided that t...

Distinguishable Traits of Fatal Skin Cancer Recognized

The traits of fast growing, melanomas, a type of fatal skin cancer have been pinpointed by experts. When a skin tumour// , identified to be cancerous is proportionate, and is raised with regular borders, and other associated symptoms, it’s more likely to develop into a potentially fatal skin cancer. This was reported by Australian researchers in East Melbourne. Melanomas that grow rapi...

Researchers Make Progress in Studying Genetic Traits of India-born Populations

Despite the fact that the people of India constitute more than one-sixth of the world's entire population, they have been underrepresented in studies related //to genetic diseases. And with the growth of modernization, complex genetic diseases associated with urban and western lifestyles have risen to near-epidemic proportions, making genetic cataloging and association studies of particular impor...

Study Explains How Costly Traits Evolve

Darwin explains - how beneficial traits accumulate in natural populations, but how do costly traits evolve?// In the past, two theories have addressed this problem. The theory of hitchhiking suggests that genes that confer a cost to their bearer can become common in natural populations when they "hitch a ride" with fitter genes that are being favored by natural selection. Con...

The Evolution of Costly Traits

Darwin has given us a background about how beneficial traits shape up in natural populations,// but one is led to wonder about the manner of development of costly traits. Two theories have tried to address this challenge – the theory of hitch hiking and theory of kin selection. The theory of hitchhiking has indicated that genes which present a cost to their bearer can become frequent...

Moss, Beckham, Hilton's Portraits Sketched in Pig's Blood for Charity

Supermodel Kate Moss and superstar footballer David Beckham are among celebrities whose sketches have been drawn with pig's blood for a charity auction . Artist Rich Clarke, who created the artworks, says that he was inspired by US TV drama 'Dexter' that follows a serial killer, working for the police and analysing blood at crime scenes. He was specifically assigned th...