Behavioral Ecology Blog

Ready for the next installment of the Tangled Bank, the longest running (??) blog carnival dedicated to all things science??
What is a blog carnival you say? Well, from the Tangled Bank website- it is:
A Carnival is a weekly showcase of good weblog writing, selected by the authors themselves (that’s the vanity part). Every other week, [...]

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I really need this service….via the geeks

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Well scientists can now predict your most secret behavior by assessing your scores on various tests of personality.. Turns out- those warm and fuzzy types- and the anti-social are much more likely to be sexually promiscuous…. This story, predictably covered by LiveScience (Who Sleeps Around? Scientists Know) is based on a paper in the Journal [...]

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Traditional sperm competition theory predicts that rival males will compete not only antagonistically (sperm scoopers, etc), but also numerically (I’ll inseminate more sperm that you do) with rival males. Basically, when females are limiting, and sperm is cheap and limitless, aside from mate guarding, maximization of fertilization success comes with maximization of the ratio:
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The top ten search words used to land on the blog:

Britany Spears-no nudie pics folks- I was really just making fun of Bush…
anisogamy-
sperm competition- several posts, here, here, here.
behavioral ecology blog- you know where this link leads to…
ecology blog- same here…
being ugly-I hope I’m helping you out here.
sperm- same as sperm competition
blog sperm- same as [...]

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I hope everybody has seen/read the recent PNAS supplemental issue: In the light of evolution I: Adaptation and complex design- there are several way cool papers directly relevent to the stuff I blog about here, and to the stuff that many of you are interested in. It’s worth a read..
Anyway, the there is a [...]

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(Sorry people, it is not god or the unnamed intelligent designer)
Hey guys, do you ever wonder about these things? I certainly did, but up until a few weeks ago, scientists didn’t really know.. It shoudn’t be too surprising to learn that the majority of the super-poison alkaloids come from their diets… The particulars [...]

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So suppose you were in car accident, and had life-threatening injuries… even worse, suppose that it was your kid/spouse. What type of treatment would you want for them???

A therapy used “successfully” since the Vietnam War, but without the support of empirically derived evidence. OR
A therapy derived from appropriately collected empirical data that has been [...]

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Middle finger as a new signal of respect??

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Bird taking a shit on Bush (24th second - end)

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