Sex cells: egg and sperm

Why do we get hair on certain parts of our bodies, and can we get it back once it’s gone?

DNA has a language of its own, one you may be unfamiliar with, but it’s worth getting to grips with it to help you make use of genetics in your genealogy. I have included only those words that crop up

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

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“I remember singing it in the playground in ...