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Beetle moms benefit from absentee dads
What’s good for the goose ain’t always good for the gander–until it is. In evolutionary biology-speak, sexual selection happens when one sex benefits from something that harms the other. For example, male seed beetles use their spiky penises to transfer … Continue reading →
Posted in Sexual conflict
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Tagged battle and ballet, burying beetles, dead-beat dads, Scientific literature
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