To really understand if female promiscuity in seed beetles is indeed a case of sexual antagonism, said Maklakov, will require looking at the fitness of the sons. "The current study demonstrates that ...

For far too long, women have been seen as secondary to men under the patriarchal rule of human society. Yet, humanity's existence has been a minor blip in the history of the Earth, where females are ...

Some male mammals are known to kill babies of the same species. The only trait that really explains infanticide is the possibility for females to breed in any season, according to a study published in ...

I ONCE stole a lion’s girlfriend. At the time, I was in the Masai Mara in Kenya experimenting with audio playback as a means of deciphering lion communication. This involved blasting a recording of a ...

Carroll, Scott P. and Loye, Jenella E. 1990. "Male-Biased Sex Ratios, Female Promiscuity and Copulatory Mate Guarding in an Aggregating Tropical Bug, Dysdercus bimaculatus." Journal of Insect Behavior ...

Everhart (The Road to Bittersweet) serves up a shocking tale of a reform school for “promiscuous” women in 1940s North Carolina. After 15-year-old Stella Temple is impregnated by her father, her ...