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Car traffic driving micro-evolution?

March 19, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

It’s hard to think that you can evolve to avoid fatal car crashes, but apparently, you can. Well not you, but other creatures like cliff swallows can. Ecologist Charles Brown at […]

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Animals, Ecology, Evolution, Our Environment, Science News

Immaculate conception? Not quite

September 19, 2012by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

Did you know that certain vertebrates (animals with backbones and spinal columns, basically the higher orders of animal life) can reproduce as virgins? Female snakes, sharks and some birds sometimes […]

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Animals, Ecology

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