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A black howler monkey chorus

Calls vs. balls: monkeys with more impressive roars produce less sperm

22 Oct 2015

Evolutionary ‘trade-off’ between size of throat and testes discovered in howler monkeys furthers Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and corresponds...

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Baby birds and moor

Cambridge scientists reveal cracks in egg theory

03 Jun 2010

Scientists in Cambridge have found cracks in the long-standing theory that the number of eggs animals have - and the size of those eggs - is related...

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Korean Grandmother and Baby

The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren

29 Oct 2009

It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. Now research suggests that the pattern may...

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Test tubes

Tell donor-assisted children at early age, study says

10 Jul 2008

Parents with children conceived through assisted reproduction are likely to have good family relationships, but if they are going to tell their child...

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