Imagine you're a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the ...

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Historically, researchers focused on the role of sperm characteristics in fertilization success, but now female factors and cooperative processes are gaining recognition.

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Scientists suspected the fossils were a new species of elasmosaur ... Robin O’Keefe, a biology professor at Marshall University in West Virginia and an expert on marine reptiles from the ...

2001; Enquist et al., 2015). This idea follows from a central paradigm in ecology (Whittaker, 1972) and evolutionary biology (Levins, 1968) where observed shifts in phenotypes, species’ abundances, ...