Genes come in different varieties, called alleles. Somatic cells contain two alleles for every gene, with one allele provided by each parent of an organism. Often, it is impossible to determine which ...

You know/suspect that the deceased’s wishes had changed since they made their Will some years prior and you wish to honour what you believe to be their final wishes. A Deed of Variation is an ideal ...

One of the great insights of Edmund Burke’s monumental treatise Reflections on the Revolution in France is his defense of the principle of inheritance in government. Burke argued against certain ...

An analysis of a slug-eating response by naive, newborn garter snakes provides a particularly clear example of geographic variation in behavior with a genetic basis. Feeding responses were recorded ...

With the UK government looking set to stick with last autumn’s changes to inheritance, tax some practical ways to navigate the now established changes are starting to emerge. Previously, Business ...

“I love you, but you are not serious people,” says Logan Roy, the fictitious media mogul, to his feuding, grasping children in the TV series “Succession”. The same may be said by many an anguished ...