In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. There is much less disagreement about the consequences of accepting that animals have ...

Nathan Lents is an excellent science-based summary of what we know. Among his major messages are that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted ...

The study, conducted by the Messerli Research Institute for Human-Animal Relations, suggests that dogs have a better ...

Japan's government approved a request for stem-cell experiments meant to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. The experiment, which still requires approval from the ...

The evolution of sex, gender, mating strategies, and social relationships are hot topics in the study of nonhuman and human behavior. 1 People from many different disciplines are weighing on these ...