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Ecology:

Best paper title I've seen in a while  permlink

Category: Ecology

Cooperation and individuality among man-eating lions....

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The root of all anti-evolutionism  permlink

Category: Culture

The Religious Landscape Survey has a lot of data various denominations. Recently I noticed something weird about Mormons; they are very anti-evolution, as well as anti-universalist in their views on salvation, according to this survey. These are notable views because...

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Why ligers are huge  permlink

Category: Evolution

Believe it or not, tigers are not the largest big cat. Ligers are (you might remember ligers from Napoleon Dynamite). Why? It has to do with the weirdness that occurs when you hybridize across two lineages which have been distinctive...

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Altruism & the apes  permlink

Category: Ecology

Eric Michael Johnson of Primate Diaries has a piece up for Seed, where he reviews Franz De Waal's newest book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. Also a post, Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in...

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The contingent history of science  permlink

Category: Ecology

p-ter points out that selection of model organisms can shape the path of scientific research because of the very nature of model organisms. Normative considerations in science are pretty obvious when you look at the set of disciplines; there's a...

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Gene wars across the generations  permlink

Category: Genetics

Nearly 50 years ago W. D. Hamilton published two papers, The genetical evolution of social behaviour - I & The genetical evolution of social behaviour - II, which helped revolutionize our conception of how social and genetic process might work...

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Rainforests in strange places  permlink

Category: Ecology

Where is the rainforest above located? For the answer see below.......

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Hornet vs. bee; insect wars  permlink

Category: Ecology

Many of you might have seen this video of Japanese bees defending their nest against giant hornets: The Japanese bees swarm and bake the giant hornets. But Ed Young reports that there is more to this story....

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Killing you with poison, not sepsis  permlink

Category: Evolution

Ed Yong has an excellent review of new research which casts substantial doubt on the trivia chestnut that Komodo dragons kill their prey with their extremely pathogen rich saliva. The more prosaic answer seems to be that they utilize poison,...

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Genetic closeness != behavioral closeness  permlink

Category: Ecology

Sheril's post, Chimpanzees Are NOT Pets!, is good. She notes: 1 Chimpanzees are wild animals. Animals that make good PETS like dogs and cats, have been domesticated for [thousands] of years. There has been selection on them against aggression, which...

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