Human infant helplessness is not a weakness to be outgrown. It is an evolved trait that may be central to our ability to care for others.
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Your fingers’ lengths are just one feature of many that let your hands grasp, press, pull and otherwise interact with the world.
Focusing on girls’ schooling may put boys at a disadvantage and be an inefficient way to reach gender equality.
Early human development is a complex, multistep process that’s even more complicated to study in the lab. Models made from stem cells avoid some of the trouble with using real human embryos.
Ensuring that ego and prestige of the Global North does not get in the way of on-the-ground results in the Global South will be the key to effective social impact investing in the years to come.
Balancing well is a whole-body experience that develops over time and takes practice to master.
Athletes from multiple NSO’s in Canada are rising up in hurt and anger to denounce toxic cultures and linking arms to demand a respectful, healthy and inclusive sport system for all.
Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.
The ‘multiplier effect’ of literacy empowers people by enabling them to meaningfully participate in society and improve their livelihoods.
Some people seeking to influence public opinion about abortion rights claim the science is clear. It’s not, and that means abortion remains a political question – not a biological one.
In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions and health care help to explain the pandemic’s racially disparate toll.
The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
New research looked at human impacts on more than 5,000 threatened species and found that a quarter of them have almost nowhere left to go to escape from the threats posed by human development.
The gaps in African government are twofold: governance and education. It is important to focus on both areas to bring about overall improvements.
Most researchers use the UN’s Human Development Index to measure each country’s progress, but that system has flaws. A new, simplified index aims to do it better.
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Director of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Economics, emeritus, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Associate Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
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Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Extraordinary Research Scientist, North-West University
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Professor of Philosophy and Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Chair of Policy Innovation, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor of Planetary Health, Maastricht University
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor, Communication and Culture, Royal Roads University
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