You learn your mother’s laugh before you learn to walk. You borrow her eye shape, her nervous energy, her way of running late for everything but always arriving with something useful. Some of that is ...

Behavioral similarities between parents and their offspring are less marked than is often suggested, a new study shows. People are only slightly more likely to share personality traits with their ...

Do you have your mom’s button nose? Did your dad pass on the curse of sneezing in bright sunlight? And where did your baby’s red, curly hair come from when there hasn’t been a redhead in your family ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Craig S. Smith, Eye on AI host and former NYT writer, covers AI. In humans, traits such as impulsiveness or a quick temper can be ...

The human genome may have been sequenced, but we are still learning about how it works. One of the features of the genome scientists are still deciphering is epigenetics, which refers to the various ...

She gave you life, love, and probably more than a few of your best traits! With 20 thousand genes shaping who we are, roughly half come from dad, but today, we’re celebrating the half that comes from ...

Hair genetics can come from either parent, and multiple genes can determine hair traits, such as color, texture, and growth. Genes can also affect hair loss. Although it can run in families, this is ...

Two plants, same species, same environment, same genetic sequence, yet one is a normal, healthy specimen of weedy mustard relative, Arabidopsis thaliana, and the other is a tiny dwarf plant, shriveled ...