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The simple theory of natural selection says that the fittest males will father the next generation. But a new research published in journal PLoS One and carried out by a team at the University of Southern California shows that this is not the real case, explaining a paradox that goes from insects to humans: if the be... |
17 April 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Men love hot women. Women love supportive men (read money) and Einstein would be disqualified for being too short. A new study published in the "Journal of Family Psychology" shows that the Beauty and the Beast make the most positive and supportive couple. In the end, attractiveness has universal standards, like big ... |
11 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is the real power of love scientifically proven: hold on to temptation. A study made by a team from UCLA and the online dating service eHarmony and published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior discovered that people involved in long-term relationships were less attracted by hot members of the opposite s... |
15 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The common concept says that men seek for physical beauty in women, while women look for power and money. The typical men are from Mars and women from Venus. But a new research published in the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" shows that both sexes have the same romantic expectations. The two psychologi... |
14 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is the most gentle man/woman you have ever found. He/she says exactly what you want to hear. But watch out! Don't involve yourself too much in this relationship, as it can be the most disastrous possible, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "Communication Reports." People constantly monit... |
13 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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So far, only two species of primates (besides humans) were known to mate face-to-face in the wild: bonobos and orangutans. But the Wildlife Conservation Society has presented a pair of wild western lowland gorillas in Africa having face-to-face sex. This had been seen in Zoo mountain gorillas, but never seen in the l... |
13 February 2008
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Kissing a female bottom in order to ascend in the hierarchical rank is not specific only to some men. There are cases when testosterone (and its accompanying aggression) or kin degree may not help, but the help of the right female may, as found by a study on the social behavior of an African fish species and publishe... |
31 January 2008
04:16 GMT |
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1. The bighorn sheep originates in Siberia. It reached North America 100,000 years ago. Sheep's genus, Ovis, has common origin with the goat's genus, Capra. 20,000 years ago, in the southern Rocky Mountains lived Ovis catclawensis, a ship 12-20 % longer than the bighorn (Ovis canadensis) and 50-70 % heavier... |
25 January 2008
16:54 GMT |
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Large shoulders, perfect smile, good sense of humor or a trusty person? No matter what makes a man attractive, women worldwide want the same in men. And this rule applies to the animal kingdom as well: all females are attracted by the same male characteristics, specific to a species, no matter if it's about som... |
3 December 2007
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Classic theories talk about the sex war, in which males must bang everything they catch, while females must choose the best to have the best offspring. But a new research presented at the Zoological Society of London, and carried on the African topi antelopes (Damaliscus lunatus) (a close relative of the more known w... |
29 November 2007
08:44 GMT |
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Well, Adam Sandler won't father a Brad Pitt. But it seems that only Brad Pitt can father another Brad Pitt...This happens in the insect world as well.Attractive traits have been known to be passed on from parents to offspring, from cricket calls to peacocks' tails, but being really sexy is more complicated.... |
22 November 2007
05:21 GMT |
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1.There are 170 known fossil elephant species that inhabited the whole Earth, except for Australia and Antarctica. The elephants' ancestors appeared 50 million years ago in North Africa, were pig sized and resembled a tapir. Elephants' living closest relatives are sea cows, like manatees, dugongs and hyraxe... |
21 November 2007
16:48 GMT |
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Good husbands cannot be that masculine. A mixed team from Indiana University Bloomington, University of Virginia and University of Southern Mississippi investigating a natural population of Carolina dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis carolinensis) found that natural fluctuations in testosterone levels are linked to a m... |
17 October 2007
03:26 GMT |
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This tamarin monkey species is called Saguinus oedipus; but despite its name (from Oedip in the Greek mythology), the sons do not kill their father, nor do they mate with their mothers. These South American little monkeys, weighing just 450 g (one pound) and being 30 cm (1 ft) long, can live up to 11 years, having a ... |
8 October 2007
15:46 GMT |
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We call them colonies, but they are in fact just huge harems. In the case of the northern fur seals, the first to invade the beaches in March are the males. Once they reach the sand, they become aggressive with each other, fighting for the best spots. They do not even go fishing into the sea, to keep the best locatio... |
1 October 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Now we know why Barry White was nicknamed "The Walrus of Love". A new research found that men with lower-pitched voices father more children than those with high-pitched voices. Women found in the fertile period seem to select men with low-pitched voices.Previously, the team led by David Feinberg, assistant professo... |
26 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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What you have is often not what you want. And this applies not only to human pairs. A new study made on several animal species found that when animals must mate with less-than-preferred partners, females and males apparently try to compensate that by increasing the chance of their offspring survival. The research sup... |
25 September 2007
06:00 GMT |
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Yes, testosterone is the male sex hormone that makes males muscular, aggressive and horny. But what happens when the female is a 'package' of testosterone? Not only 'fully loaded', but with higher amounts than males have?This is the case of the spotted hyena. In fact, the clitoris of the spotted h... |
16 August 2007
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As soon as they entered Europe, Homo sapiens interbred with the Neanderthals. At least this is what a 33,000 years old human skull found in a Romanian cave (filled also with fossils of cave bear) in 1942 suggests. This Homo sapiens skull displays a trait specific to Neanderthals, and a new research shows it as furthe... |
6 August 2007
06:47 GMT |
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She may not love you anymore or she may feel neglected or experience curiosity. But female cheating is not only limited to humans. In the case of the superb starling, females seem to cheat their males for the sake of their chicks, as Cornell researchers have found. The superb starling females (Lamprotornis superbus) ... |
21 June 2007
14:46 GMT |
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A male's mission is to mate with as many females he possibly can and as often as he can, n order to spread his genes as much as possible. But it doesn't stop here. If a male mates only with one female, his offspring won't have much genetic variation. But roosters come with another method: they can cont... |
17 May 2007
08:52 GMT |
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It is known that an aggressive attitude works amongst many human individuals as in many cases intimidation and threats, common throughout society, bring results when applied against weaker individuals, whether it's in the school playground, sporting arena or boardroom. And this weakness is not a physical but a m... |
4 April 2007
07:08 GMT |
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