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Starving orangutans offer a new evolutionary model for early humans
Starving orangutans in Borneo may be teaching us new lessons about human evolution.
Nathaniel Dominy, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, has been studying the dietary habits of these apes: what food they eat and how they dig…
Study shows species can change
A study of South American songbirds completed by the Department of Biology at Queen’s University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History, has discovered these birds differ dramatically in colour and song yet show very little genetic differences whi…
Aggression prevents the better part of valor … in fig wasps
Published online in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the study confirms that placid male pollinator fig wasps work together to chew an escape tunnel for their females, before crawling back into the fig to die — the non-pollinating variety …
