Amid the legal theater in the U.S. over sex and gender identity—triggered by a Trump administration decree that “‘sex’ shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male ...

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Why classify? -- 2. The Aristotelian framework -- 3. The Darwinian pivot -- 4. Evolutionary taxonomy and the cladistic challenge -- 5.

An international team of researchers, including Prof. Christine Klein from the University of Lübeck and the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, has made a significant leap in ...

One of the things that makes developing effective treatments for Parkinson's disease so challenging is its complexity. While some forms are caused by genetics, others have environmental factors, and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will define sex as an "immutable biological classification" and only recognize two sexes, male and ...

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