As an evolutionary biologist focusing on animal behaviour, I'm sometimes asked what relevance our research has for human behaviour. Years ago, I would duck the question because it was such a passionately polarising, political ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2017
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Evolutionary interests of males and females do not always coincide. This is known as sexual conflict: male innovations that allow them to reproduce more sometimes hurt females, and vice versa.
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2017
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Joint research by the University of Otago and University of Canterbury has revealed that male salmon can adjust their sperm's swimming speed if competing with a rival to reproduce.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2017
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Scientists in the UK have observed a fascinating new fact about sex changing fish: the direction of sex change has implication for population numbers.
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2017
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Evolution works in mysterious ways, especially when it comes to sex.
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A biologist with the University of Zurich has discovered a species of dragonfly whose females play dead to avoid copulating with other males once her eggs have already been fertilized. In his paper published ...
Norwegian researchers show that the sperm of Arctic char, a cold-water fish common to alpine lakes, swim at different speeds in different fluids, depending on whether the fish are dominant or submissive. The finding published ...
Evolution
Dec 21, 2016
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The male reproductive organs of tomato plants can't stand the heat. When temperatures rise above 32 degrees Celsius for several consecutive days, their appearance changes and they produce less and less fertile pollen, leading ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2016
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Ocean acidification could have a major impact on the reproductive behaviour of fish living in affected waters, a new study shows.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2016
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An isolated population of honeybees, the Cape bees, living in South Africa has evolved a strategy to reproduce without males. A research team from Uppsala University has sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape bees ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2016
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