Helping Family is Key for Social Birds
Social birds that forgo breeding to help to raise the offspring of other group members are far more likely care for their own close relatives than for more distant kin, a new study has found. (more…)
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Close Family Ties Keep Microbial Cheaters in Check, Study Finds
Experiments on “slime mold” explain why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell
Any multicellular animal, from a blue whale to a human being, poses a special challenge for evolution. (more…)