Behavioral Ecology Blog

The new edition of the Tangled Bank is up at Ouroboros. Go check it out.
For those of you still unaware, the Tangled bank is a blog carnival dedicated to showcasing the best of science blogging from the past 2 weeks.

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Hat tip: Sandwalk:
A disturbing clip about the war in Iraq- remember Guernica?

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Does anybody have a copy of this video that can be posted online (YouTube, etc.), or preferable on my blog…
1971 Academy AwardsShort Subjects (Animated Films)

Evolution - National Film Board of Canada, Columbia - Michael Mills

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Woman’s fertility cycle affects brain- (Didn’t we always know this)
A woman’s hormones affect specific parts of the brain called the reward pathway, researchers said on Monday in a finding that could offer insight into treating drug abuse and mood disorders.
A study of women playing an imaginary slot machine game showed their brain responses changed in [...]

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Apparently, I look like the freakin’ uni-bomber!!
EDIT: As of 1.30.07 at 6:27AM (PST), the site is back up!!
Create your own here

Lets see the likeness guys… PZ, RPM, Bora, RetroSpec, Greg,Razib, Voltage, Sphere, Blyberg.

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Now I am not usually a huge sucker for this type of thing- But PostSecret is pretty cool. From what I understand, PostSecret is an online community where people anonymously send e-postcards and regular postcards with a secret.. These messages are sometimes sad, funny, creepy, weird, THOUGHT-PROVOKING.. Anyway, go see it for yourself HERE. [...]

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I’d like to point readers to an interesting post, The Evolution of Modern Human Mating Systems and Sexuality, over at Greg’s Blog. It’s worth a read… Anyway, I believe he is proposing that the estrous is adaptive in species where female choice is important. His argument goes like this:

There are species in which females have [...]

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This post follows in line with several people at ScienceBlogs (Also Larry Moran and Greg Laden) in an attempt to generate a series of posts that cover what they (we) think are essential.. See nice posts on Fitness, evolution, clade, 8th grade math, and teaching resources. See the current/complete list here.
Most basic [...]

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So I was having a discussion with an office mate and fellow PhD student the other day about seminar behavior. I’ll admit that this was in part prompted by our mutual (and probably universal) experiences of having been to some pretty boring departmental seminars- mostly brought on our own ignorance of a particular topic.
So [...]

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Sexual Selection and Genital Evolution in Mammals
ABSTRACT:
Studies in invertebrate taxa suggest that postcopulatory sexual selection is an important factor in genital evolution. However, despite wide interspecific variation in genital morphology, evidence for an influence of sexual selection on mammalian genitalia is equivocal. Here I conduct phylogenetically controlled comparative analyses across four mammalian orders to assess [...]

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