1. In the contentious and polarizing world of politics, it isn’t surprising for a memoir to spark both rage and delight. The world of science is supposed to be more reasoned, objective—and staid. So ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Jennifer Raff’s Origin. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, join our community space, attend an event, read an excerpt, sign up for our email ...

Humans contain multitudes. Each person on the planet contains enough DNA to stretch to Pluto – several times. Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human ...

Studying how genes influence human behavior is an enormously complicated undertaking. Socio-genomicists are harnessing massive banks of genetic data and complex data science analysis techniques to ...